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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More birthdays and historical events, September 20 - On This Day

 

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.

September 18 Dateline

Birthdays

1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was known by the nickname "La Cecchina", given to her by the Florentines. Listen to her Ciaccona. Luigi Cozzolino, violino; Andrea Benucci, chitarra; Alfonso Fedi, clavicembalo; Francesco Tomei, viola da gamba.  YouTube, uploaded by Massimo Carota. Accessed September 18, 2018)

1709 - Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist.

1905 - Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson), Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time, Garbo was known for her melancholy, somber persona due to her many portrayals of tragic characters and for her subtle performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She stirred interest with her first American silent film, Torrent. Her performance in Flesh and the Devil, made her an international star. For her performances, she received her first of the three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1932, her success allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly selective about her roles. She continued in films such as Mata Hari, Inspiration, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Anna Karenina. Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1936) to be her finest.

1939 - Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone), American actor, singer, and former teen idol. Avalon had 31 charted U.S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962, including the number one hits "Venus" and "Why" in 1959. Avalon's first film was a short appearance in Jamboree, playing a trumpet and singing "Teacher's Pet". In the late 1950s, teen idols were often given roles in films, supporting older male stars in order to attract a younger audience. Alan Ladd's daughter was a Frankie Avalon fan, who recommended that he co-star with her father in the Western Guns of the Timberland.  Avalon sings two songs, "The Faithful Kind" and "Gee Whiz Whillikins Golly Gee"; both were released as singles.

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More birthdays and historical events, September 18 -  On This Day

Historical Events

1809 - London's Royal Opera House opens with a performance of Shakespeare's  Macbeth. The foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales, and was incorporated into its present structure after a fire demolished it in 1856.

1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

September 17 Dateline

Birthdays

1711 - Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer and conductor (Listen to Holzbauer's magnificent Missa in C major. Chorus: St. Thomas Chorschule Wettenhausen Orchestra: Johann Christian Bach Akademie Köln Conductor: Jürgen Rettenmaier. YouTube, uploaded by KuhlauDilfeng3, accessed September 17, 2018.)

1883 - William Carlos Williams, American poet, writer and physician, closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known as St. Mary's General Hospital, paid tribute to Williams with a memorial plaque that states, "We walk the wards that Williams walked".

1928 - Andy McDowall (born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall), English-born American actor, film director and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home. As an adult, McDowall appeared most requently as a character actor on radio, stage, film, and television. For portraying Augustus in the historical drama Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also served in various positions on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Selection Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors, further contributing to various charities related to the film industry and film preservation. He was a founding Member of the National Film Preservation Board in 1989, and represented the Screen Actors Guild on this Board until his death.

1931 - Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano), American actress, director, screenwriter and singer. She was the recipient of an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Associated with the method acting technique, having studied under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Bancroft made her film debut in the noir thriller Don't Bother to Knock. Bancroft made her Broadway debut with the play Two for the Seesaw, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The following year she portrayed Anne Sullivan in the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film career was revived when she was cast in the acclaimed film adaptation of The Miracle Worker, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her film career further progressed with Oscar nominated performances in The Pumpkin Eater, The Graduate, The Turning Point, and Agnes of God.

1962 - Baz Luhrmann ((born Mark Anthony Luhrmann), Australian director, writer, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries. He is the most commercially successful Australian director, with four of his films in the top ten highest worldwide grossing Australian films of all time. On the screen he is best known for his "Red Curtain Trilogy", consisting of his romantic comedy film Strictly Ballroom, the romantic tragedy William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge!. Following the trilogy, projects included Australia, The Great Gatsby, and his television period drama The Get Down for Netflix. Additional projects include stage productions of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème for both the Australian Opera and Broadway and Strictly Ballroom the Musical.

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More birthdays and historical events, September 17 -  On This Day

 

Historical Events

1787 - The U.S. Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. It creates a federal union of sovereign states and a federal government to operate the union. Having won the War of Independence against the British, America is launched into the world. The two hundredth anniversary (American Bicentenary) is celebrated in 1976, taking the original date from the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

1961 - In Trafalgar Square, some 15,000 people protest in said to be London's largest ever "ban the bomb" gathering, which ends with 850 arrests including actress Vanessa Redgrave, jazz musician George Melly, and philosopher Bertrand Russell.

September 16 Dateline

Birthdays

1836 -  Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe. He is known and celebrated as one of the greatest warrior kings of medieval England, and is immortalised in Shakespearae's "Henriad" plays.

1887 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer, conductor, and teacher. Many of her students became prominent composers in their time. (Sharing here a favourite work by her: Faintaisie pour piano et orchestre, uploaded in YouTube by JCHBONNET. Accessed September 16, 2018)

1924 - Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske), American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures".  Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in To Have and Have Not (1944). She continued in the film noir genre. She also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

1925 - Charlie Lee Byrd, American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music. Byrd played fingerstyle on a classical guitar.

1956 - David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin), American magician, illusionist, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. His TV specials have won 21 Emmy Awards and 38 nominations. Copperfield's career has earned him 11 Guinness World Records, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a knighthood by the French government, and he has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress. As of 2006, Copperfield has sold 33 million tickets and grossed over US$4 billion, more than any other solo entertainer in history. When not performing, he manages his chain of eleven resort islands in the Bahamas, which he calls "Musha Cay and the Islands of Copperfield Bay".

1956 - Mickey Rourke (born Philip Andre Rourke Jr.), American actor, screenwriter, and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards, and the Online Film Critics Society. In the 2008 film The Wrestler, Rourke portrayed a past-his-prime professional wrestler; for his work in the film, Rourke received a 2009 Golden Globe award, a BAFTA award, and an Academy Award nomination. Rourke has appeared in successful films, including the Iron Man 2, The Expendables, and the Immortals.

1979 - Iestyn Davies, MBE, British Classical countertenor and chorister. From the age of eight he sang as a boy treble in the choir of St John's College, Cambridge. He began singing countertenor in his teens, at Wells Cathedral School. He returned to St John's as a choral scholar, graduating in archaeology and anthropology. He gained his DipRAM from, and was later appointed ARAM by the Royal Academy of Music. In 2004 he won the Audience Prize at the London Handel Singing Competition and in 2010 was named "Young Artist of the Year" by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Here's Album 'IF' (Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell) with Iestyn Davies and Fretwork. Accessed September 16, 2019.

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Historical Events

1908 - General Motors is founded in Flint, Michigan, and later becoming the first U.S. corporation to make $1 billion in a year. It is now based in Detroit.

1920 - A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York City. Thirty-nine people are killed and 400 more are injured.

September 15 Dateline

Birthdays

1254 - Marco Polo, (some biographers uncertain of his birthdate, presumably in Venice), Italian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo and Il Milione, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of China and its capital Peking, giving their first comprehensive look into China, India, Japan and other Asian cities and countries. (Marco Polo: The World's Greatest Explorer. Uploaded by Biographics. Accessed September 15, 2019.)

1889 -  Robert Benchley, American drama critic, essayist, humourist, actor and screenwriter, best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From The Harvard Lampoon, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers to his contemporaries in the film industry. He is best remembered for his contributions to The New Yorker, where his essays influenced many modern humorists. He also made a name in Hollywood, when his short film How to Sleep was a popular success and won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Academy Awards.

1890 - Dame Agatha Christie, DBE - English writer, creator of famous characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Regarded the greatest crime writer of all-time. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. Guinness World Records lists her as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, and as of April 2019 is still running after more than 27,000 performances. Want to know more about this greatest and a favourite crime writer of all time?  (Agatha Christie at Youtube. Accessed September 15, 2019. Witness for the Prosecution, 1982 version of Agatha Christie's play, with Ralph Richardson, Wendy Hiller, Beau Bridges, Deborah Kerr, Diana Rigg (as Christine) & Donald Pleasence. Uploaded by FunFillums. Accessed September 15, 2019.) Also, I highly recommend this video perhaps not popular in the 21st century Agatha Christie movies adaptation, it's the 1938  whodunit story, starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, in black & white. Interestingly, Joan Hickson who acted as Emmy, would become the famous Miss Marple in recent times. Agatha Christie website.    

1894 - Jean Renoir, French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.

1945 - Jessye Mae Norman, American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, she is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire. She was one of the most decorated of American singers. Multi-awarded Grammy winner, she won five Grammy Awards, four for her recordings and one for lifetime achievement. She received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor in 1997 and the National Medal of Arts in 2009. She is inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and became a Spingarn Medalist in 2013. (Richard Strauss, Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), Jessye Norman, Kurt Masur. Uploaded by Arnold van der Waals.  Jessye Norman_Samson et Dalilah_ "Mon coeur souvre à ta-voix". Uploaded bye-mujeres.net. Accessed September 15, 2016.  Jessye Norman - O Divine Redeemer {Repentir (Charles Gounod)}. Uploaded by James. Accessed September 15, 2013. Jessye Norman - A Portrait - Purcell's When I am Laid on Earth. Uploaded by texmex0303. Accessed September 15, 2011.)

1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, and Warden Dwight McClusky in Natural Born Killers. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in JFK. 

1946 - William Oliver Stone, American film director, writer and conspiracy theorist. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of their releases. They often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as demonstrated in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon.

1984 - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO ADC (Henry Charles Albert David; 15 September 1984), a member of the British Royal Family, is the younger son of King Charles III and the late Diana, then Princess of Wales. Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and remains patron of its foundation. He also gives patronage to several other organisations, including the HALO Trust, the London Marathon Charitable Trust, and Walking With The Wounded. On 19 May 2018, he married American actress Meghan Markle. Hours before the wedding, his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II made him Duke of Sussex. In January 2020, the couple announced their intention to step back as senior members of the royal family and split their time between the UK and North America.

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More birthdays and historical events, September 15 - On This Day 

Historical Events

921 - The Duchess of Bohemia (later St. Ludmila), is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law. She and her husband built the first Christian church in Bohemia, and taught her granson, later known as Good King Wenceslaus.

1966 - The U.S. spaceship Gemini XI, with astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon Jr. on board, returns to Earth after 2 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes and 8 seconds.

September 14 Dateline

Birthdays

1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer and younger brother of Joseph Haydn. He was a friend of Mozart and was also Carl Maria von Weber's teacher. Mozart's father (Leopold) criticized Michael though for his heavy drinking. (Listen to Michael Haydn's beautiful concertante for the organ, viola and orchestra - here. Uploaded by Jorgeloves. Accessed September 14, 2018.) 

1760 - Luigi Cherubini (or Sept 8?),  Italian Classical and pre-Romantic composer whose most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.  Ludwig van Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries. (Luigi Cherubini's Symphony in D major (1815). Uploaded by KuhlauDelfing2. Accessed September 14, 2014.)

1947 - Sam Neill, DCNZM OBE (born Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill), New Zealand actor, writer, producer, director and vineyard proprietor. Neill is the recipient of the Longford Lyell Award and the New Zealand Film Award and also the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor. He has three Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Historical Events

814 - American lawyer Francis Scott Key writes the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner," which fits the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven," an English song from the 1760s by John Stafford Smith.

1901 - U.S. President William McKinley, who was shot twice on September 6, dies in buffalo, New York. His assassination gives Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt the top job.    

September 13 Dateline

Birthdays

1819 - Clara Josephine Schumann (née Wieck), German piano viruoso, composer, concert pianist and piano teacher. She is considered the 19th-century's most important female composer, and regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, exerting her influence over a 61-year concert career.  She is particualrly noted for her interpretations of Robert Schumann's revolutionary piano works. She was also her husband's personal muse and protector, a role she undertook and played in heroic dimensions, acknowledged by Schumann himself, in the composition of the song cycle Frauenliebe und ~leben. She changed the format and repertoire of the piano recital from shows of mere virtousity to programs of serious works. She composed a body of work, including solo works for her instrument, a Piano Concerto, chamber music and choral pieces. Married to composer Robert Schumann, the couple had eight children. Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him. She was the first to perform in public many works by her husband and by Brahms. Her international concert tours in Europe began at age eleven with a tour to Paris. After her husband's death, she toured further, especially to Britain, with a focus on chamber music which she frequently performed with the violinist Joseph Joachim. Beginning in 1878, she was for two decades an influential piano educator at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt.(The Schumanns - Robert and Clara by Agnes Selby. Clara Schumann - Complete Piano Works (recording of the Century : Josef De Beenhouwer). Uploaded by Classical Music/ /Reference Recording. Accessed September 13, 2019.) 

1857 - Milton Snavely Hershey, American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist. He pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk. He launched the Lancaster Caramel Company, which achieved bulk exports, and then sold it to start a new company supplying mass-produced milk chocolate, previously a luxury good.

1874 -  Arnold Schönberg or Schoenberg, Austrian-born American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works were labeled degenerate music, because they were modernist and atonal. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941.His music approach, bοth in terms of harmony and development, has shaped much of the 20th-century musical thought. Many European and American composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whilst others have passionately reacted against it. With his mega-cantata, “Gurrelieder,” first performed in Vienna in 1913, Schoenberg achieved his greatest critical and popular success; none of his atonal or 12-tone works (to his chagrin) is said to have ever matched it. (Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder, written by George Pidota for Interlude. (Oct, 2015). 

1916 - Roald Dahl, British novelist, short story and childreen's writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Dahl's books champion the kindhearted, and feature an underlying warm sentiment. His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, and George's Marvellous Medicine. His adult works include Tales of the Unexpected. (Roald Dahl interview and short film - Pebble Mill at One 1982. Uploaded by Telling Tales with Carl Ashmore. Accessed September 13, 2018.)

1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, English actress. She came to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport, Day for Night which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Deep, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy. Her other film and TV credits include Rich and Famous, Class, her Golden Globe-nominated role in Under the Volcano, her Cesar-nominated role in La Cérémonie, her Emmy-nominated role in the miniseries Joan of Arc and the BBC miniseries Dancing on the Edge, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (television). She received France's highest honour, the Légion d'honneur, in 2010. She speaks English, French and Italian.

1969 - Shane Keith Warne, Australian cricketer and cricket commentator. Former international cricketer who captained the Australian national team in One Day Internationals (ODI). Widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. He officially retired from all formats of cricket in July 2013.

1971 - Goran Ivanišević, Croatian former pofessional tennis player and current Tennis Coach. He is the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998.

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More birthdays and historical events, September 13 -  On This Day 

Historical Events

122 - The construction of Hadrian's Wall begins. The stone and turf wall is built by the Romans from east to west across what is now England, to stop raids from the tribes of Scotland and crete border to their lands.

1906 - Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont, working in France, makes the first flight in Europe when his canvas and bamboo biplane is airborne for 23 feet (7 m) on the outskierts of Paris. 

September 12 Dateline

Birthdays

1494 - King Francis I of France, King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son.

1570 - Henry Hudson, English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. In 1609, he landed in North America on behalf of the Dutch East India Company and explored the region around the modern New York metropolitan area. Looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia on his ship Halve Maen ("Half Moon"), he sailed up the Hudson River, which was later named after him, and laying the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region. On his final expedition, while still searching for the Northwest Passage, Hudson became the first European to see Hudson Strait and the immense Hudson Bay.

1725 - Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière, French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He made unsuccessful attempts to observe the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from India.

1892 - Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr., American publisher and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation.

1942 - Linda Ann Gray, American actress, director, producer and former model, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman's character J.R. on the CBS television drama series Dallas, for which she was nominated for the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The role also earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations. On stage, Gray starred as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in the West End of London in 2001, then on Broadway the following year. In 2007, she starred as Aurora Greenaway in the world premiere production of Terms of Endearment at the Theatre Royal, York and stayed with the production when it toured the United Kingdom.

1943 - Philip Michael Ondaatje, CC FRSL, Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger.Michael Ondaatje, Writer, A famous quote from M. Ondaatje: “She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.” The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje Interview: We can't Rely on One Voice. Uploaded by Louisiana Channel. Accessed September 12, 2017.)

1957 - Rachel Ward, AM (born Rachel Claire Ward), English-born Australian actress, film director, television director, and screenwriter. Her big break came in 1983, when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as the lead role portraying Meggie Cleary in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film.  Also in 1983, U.S. audiences voted Ward one of the world's 10 most beautiful women.

1957 - Hans Florian Zimmer, German film score composer and record producer. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Interstellar, Gladiator, Crimson Tide, Inception, Dunkirk, and The Dark Knight Trilogy. He has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. (Gladiator. Now we are free. Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard. Uploaded by HD Film Tributes. Accessed September 12, 2015.  Lion King Opening Scene - Circle of Life 1440p 60 fps. Uploaded by YapChagi. Accessed September 12, 2019. The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1994]. Accessed July 25, 2023.)

Lefties:
None known

 

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 12 - On This Day 

Historical Events

1840 - Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck, daughter of his teacher, Friedrich Wieck, who opposed the marriage. 

1846 - Elizabeth Barrett, one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era, elopes with English playwright Robert Browning. They live happily in Florence, Italy, where her health improves until her death in 1861.

September 11 Dateline

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1862 - William Sydney Porter, American short story writer better known by his pen name O. Henry. Born in North Carolina, he moved to Texas in 1882, where he met his wife, Athol Estes, with whom he had two children. After the death of his wife in 1902, Porter moved to New York, where he soon remarried. It was while he was in New York that Porter's most intensive writing period occurred, writing 381 short stories. Porter's works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief". His stories are known for their surprise endings and witty narration. Porter also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His legacy includes the O. Henry Award, an annual prize awarded to outstanding short stories. (The Gift of Love by O. Henry (1978 film). YouTube, uploaded by tainlor. Accessed September 11, 2020.)

 

1885 - D.H. Lawrence (born David Herbert Lawrence), English novelist, short story writer and poet. Notable books include: Sons & Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. (Brief Biography of D.H. Lawrence. Uploaded by Bahri Ancer. The Travels of D.H. Lawrence. Uploaded by Her Aeolian Harp. Review: Sons & Lovers. Uploaded by The ThriftyReader Accessed September 11, 2018.) 

1935 -  Arvo Pärt or Paert, Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli.  Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres, Spiegel im Spiegel, and Für Alina. Perhaps being a chorister, aside from Spiegel, my personal favourite is Da pacem Domine (Give Peace, Lord), a choral composition by Arvo Pärt on the Latin prayer for peace, first composed in 2004 for four voices. From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018. (De profundis. (Latin: Out of the Depths, a cry of anguish) Arvo Pärt. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. YouTube, uploaded by Musicacoral. Accessed September 11, 2020. (Spiegel im Spiegel)

1940 - Brian Russell de Palma, American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. His prominent films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites. De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors. His directing style  at times bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. 

1946 - Julie Covington, English singer and actress, best known for recording the original version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" which she sang on the 1976 concept album Evita. She won the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best Actress Award. (Don't Cry for me Argentina, YouTube, uploaded by MrHaggis64. Accessed September 11, 2011.)

1962 - Kristy McNichol (born Christina Ann McNichol), retired American actress, comedian, producer, and singer. She is known for such roles as Angel in the film Little Darlings, Polly in the film Only When I Laugh, and Barbara Weston in the TV sitcom Empty Nest. She won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of teenage daughter Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the TV drama Family. McNichol retired from acting in 2001.

1967 - Harry Connick Jr. (born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr.), American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and TV host. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history. Connick's best-selling album in the US is his Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas. His highest-charting album is his release Only You (2004), which reached No. 5 in the US and No. 6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards.

Lefties:
Author D.H. Lawrence 
Actress Kristy McNichol

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 11 - On This Day 

 

Historical Events

1792 - The Hope Diamond, known as Louis XIV's French Blue, is stolen along with with other crown jewels. It now resides in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C..

1840 - Robert Schumann presents his fiancee Clara Wieck with his Liederkreis song cycle as a gift on the eve of their wedding.

September 10 Dateline

Birthdays

1588 - Nicolas Lanier, English composer/musician, sometimes known as Laniere (baptised at Greenwich 10 September 1588). He was the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction.

1929 - Arnold Daniel Palmer, American professional golfer regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. He won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed 'The King', he was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s. Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player were "The Big Three" in golf during the 1960s; they are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.

1934 - Lazar "Larry" Sitsky AO, FAHA, Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar. A grant from the Myer Foundation in 1965 enabled him to conduct research into the music of Ferruccio Busoni, on whom he has written extensively. In 2000 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to music as a composer, musicologist, pianist and educator; and in the same year he received the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through music. In 2017 Sitsky was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the arts as a composer and concert pianist, to music education as a researcher and mentor, and through musical contributions to Australia's contemporary culture.(Top tracks - arranged by Larry Sitsky... from a favourite CD of mine, Russkaya Melodiya. YouTube, accessed September 10, 2018.)

1935 - Mary Oliver, American poet, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Mary Oliver reads from "A Thousand Mornings", uploaded by 92nd Street Y. Accessed February 15, 2019. Quoted from her too:  "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?", "Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." and "Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?". (Song for Autumn - Poem: Mary Oliver. Music: Celtic Myst -- You Sing to Me. Quote - Rainer Maria Rilke.  KJV selected verses from Romans chpt 8. Uploaded by ErinLeigh. Accessed September 10, 2014.

1938 - Karl Otto Lagerfeld, German creative fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 until his death, and was also creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi, and of his own eponymous fashion label. Lagerfeld was recognized for his signature white hair, black sunglasses, fingerless gloves, and high, starched, detachable collars.

1945 - Jose Feliciano (born José Monserrate Feliciano García), Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer, best known for many international hits, including his rendition of The Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single, "Feliz Navidad." His music is known for its fusion of styles: Latin, jazz, blues, soul and even rock, created primarily with his unique, signature acoustic guitar sound.

1960 - Colin Firth CBE (born Colin Andrew Firth), English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. It was his portrayal of Mr Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that he received more widespread attention. This led to roles in more prominent films, such as The English Patient, Bridget Jones's Diary, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Shakespeare in Love, Conspiracy with Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci, The Importance of Being Earnest, again with Judi Dench and Richard Curtis's Love Actually. In 2018, he co-starred in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns and the following year he appeared in the war film 1917. Firth's films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. In 2011, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was also selected as one of the Time 100. 

 

Death: 

English actress Dame Diana Rigg (1938-2020), actress on stage, screen, and television. 
 

Lefties:
None known 

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 10 - On This Day 

 

Historical Events

1897 - The first British drink-driving conviction is handed out.  George Smith, driving a brand-new electric "Horseless Carriage" taxi with a top speed of 9 mph, is fined a pound for driving first on the pavement and then into the front of 165 Bond Street in London.

1963 - American Express, one of the biggest banks in the world, introduces its credit card in the U.K., and now begins the now-common method of credit.

September 9 Dateline

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

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 9 - On This Day 

 

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.

September 8 Dateline

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1157 - Richard the Lionheart, perhaps most famous for spending less than a year of his 10-year reign in England, spending more time on Crusades or imprisoned. Like his father, Henry II, Richard is buried in France, at Fontrevault Abbey. It's also from this period that the story of Robin Hood comes.

1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso. The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many side plots.

1841 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them". (Wiki) Enjoy this superb interpretation of Dvořák's Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 by the chamber ensemble of Kathy Selby & Friends, performed at James O. Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on 18 February 2013. Elizabeth Layton (violin); Grace Clifford (violin); Tobias Breider (viola): Clancy Newman (cello): Kathryn Selby (piano). Accessed, September 8, 2014. Jacqueline du Pré, Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104. London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim conducting. YouTube, uploaded by Blue8348. Accessed September 8, 2016.)

1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, CBE (born Siegfried Loraine Sassoon), English poet, writer, biographer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. He was famous for The Heart's Journey. He was also known for Sherston trilogy, a series of books consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress.

1925 - Peter Sellers, CBE, English film actor, comedian and singer. He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films.

1932 - Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley), American singer. She is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and was one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music.

Death:

 

2022.  Beloved Queen. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passes away after reigning for 70 years. She is the longest reigning monarch in British history, died Thursday at age 96, after she was placed under medical supervision for failing health. The royal family announced her death, saying the queen “died peacefully” at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Queen Elizabeth II: Her Final Duty - The Nation's Farewell. Uploaded by Michael Garnett.  Australia stops to watch Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's funeral | 7NEWS Australia.

Recommended  reading:  “Whether it be long or short” - The death of Queen Elizabeth II brings Britain’s second Elizabethan age to an end, by R. Albert Mohler Jr. Post Date: September 9, 2022.

 

 

 

Lefties:
Actor Peter Sellers 

 

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 8 - On This Day 

 

Historical Events

1504 - Renaissance artist Michelangelo's sculpture David, is unveiled in Florence. It took him three years to create. The 17-foot (5.2 m) marble figure portrays the Biblical King David. He is also famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

1565 - A Spanish expedition establishes the first permanent European settlement in North America, at St. Augustine in Florida. it is today a winter retreat for the rich.

September 7 Dateline

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1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She is imprisoned while her sister Mary ruled, however, came to power in 1558 on Mary's death without heirs. The fact that neither sister had children is sometimes seen as evidence that their father Henry may have had syphilis, which is deemed could lead to barren children. Elizabeth I formally ratified the Church of England in 1563, a point in time when English Catholics are persecuted with at almost as much fervour as Mary previously persecuted the Protestants before, in her reign.

1909 - Elia Kazan, Film Director & Producer, famous for "On the Waterfront," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," amongst other classic films. (Wikipedia) 

1913 - Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE, British Actor and Theatre Director. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days, and played important roles in major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Operation Crossbow, QB VII, and The Eagle Has Landed. Quayle was knighted in the 1985. 

1921 - Arthur Ferrante, American duo-pianist with Louis Teicher (Ferrante & Teicher - Greatest Love Themes of the 20th Century (1973) full vinyl albums)

1923 - Peter Lawford (born Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford), English-American Actor, Producer, and Socialite, who lived in the United States throughout his adult life. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.

1932 - Sir Paul Getty, Jr., KBE (born Eugene Paul Getty), British Philanthropist and Book Collector. He was the third of five sons born to Jean Paul Getty Sr., one of the richest men in the world at the time, and his wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the Visual Media Company Getty Images.

1936 - Buddy Holly (born Charles Hardin Holley), American Musician and Singer-Songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.

1949 -  Gloria Gaynor, American Singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 number 1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 number 9, 1974) and "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (Hot 100 number 42, 1980).

1969 - Rudy Galindo (Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo), American figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion, 1987 World Junior Champion, and 1996 World Bronze medalist. As a pairs skater, he competed with Kristi Yamaguchi and was the 1988 World Junior Champion and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. National Champion. He is the first openly gay skating champion in the United States, though US, World and Olympic champion Brian Boitano came out long after his career was over.

Lefties:
Figure skater Rudy Galindo
Actor Peter Lawford

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 7 - On This Day

Historical Events

1870 - James Whitcomb Riley's first published poem, "The Same Old Story Told Again," appears in the Greenfield (Indiana) Commercial.

1927 - The first fully electronic television system is done by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. He was 21 at the time but actually came up with the idea at 14.

September 6 Dateline

Birthdays

1766 - John Dalton, FRS, (born Sept 5 or 6), English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into color blindness, sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour. (Dalton's Atomic Theory. Uploaded by ChemSurvival. Accessed September 6, 2017.)

1836 - John Atkinson Grimshaw, Victorian-era artist, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes. Today, he is considered one of the great painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape and townscape artists of all time. His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw". (John A. Grimshaw's Paintings. YouTube, uploaded by genkou asanuma. J. Grimshaw Collection, uploaded by Sofie A. Accessed September 6, 2020.)

1877 - Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden, African American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as "jazz". Learn About the Inventor of Jazz with Wynton Marsalis. YouTube, uploaded by Amanpour and Company. Accessed September 6, 2022.)

 

1886 - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, English poet, writer, and soldier, decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those in his view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, known as the "Sherston trilogy".

1892 - Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS, English physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

1943 - Richard J. Roberts, FRS, British biochemist, molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.

1973 - Gregory Rusedski, British and Canadian former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6-12 October 1997, and from 25 May to 21 June, 1998.

1974 - Tim Henman, OBE (born Timothy Henry Henman), British retired professional tennis player. A serve-and-volley style of tennis, he was the first male player from the UK since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. He never reached the finals of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles). He was ranked British number 1 in 1996, and from 1999 to 2005, from which point he was succeeded by Andy Murray.

Lefties:
None known

More birthdays and historical events, September 6 - On This Day

 

Feature:

 

From the brilliant and imaginative work of John Atkinson Grimshaw, composer Frederick Delius created a heart-meltingly beautiful music, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden," a heart-warming music painting in scene 5 and 6 of his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.

Historical Events

1620 - The Pilgrims, a group of Puritans seeking religious freedom, sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower, to settle in North America. A Puritanical religious group, they had suffered in England and were looking for a place they could practise their faith. The day before they had set out in two ships, the Speedwell and Mayflower. The Speedwell leaked and had to dock in Devon at Plymouth. It's from Plymouth that the Mayflower finally leaves, landing on the east coast of North America. They seek out a suitable place to start a colony ending up in a location they also named Plymouth, in Massachusetts.

1651 - Charles II spends the night in an oak tree to avoid Cromwell's forces after losing the Battle of Worcester. After Cromwell's death in 1658, Charles II is invited to take the throne in the Restoration, 1660, in time for bubonic plague and the Great Fire of London.

September 5 Dateline

Birthdays

1187 - King Louis VIII of France, by name The Lion, was King of France from 1223 to 1226. From 1216 to 1217, he also claimed to be King of England. Louis was the only surviving son of King Philip II of France by his first wife, Isabelle of Hainaut, from whom he inherited the County of Artois.

1638 - King Louis XIV of France, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history. Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe.

1735 - Johann Christian Bach, (known as JC Bach), German composer of the Classical era, the 18th child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons with Anna Magdalena Wilcken, his second wife. He is also known as "The English Bach", and during his time spent living in London, he came to be known as John Bach. He is noted for playing a role in influencing the concerto styles of Haydn and Mozart. He contributed significantly to the development of the new sonata principle. [(Video: J.C. Bach Piano Concertos, with Anthony Halstead, pianoforte. Members of The Hannover Band. Anthony Halstead. YouTube. Accessed September 5, 2018)

1774 -  Caspar David Friedrich, 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.

1912 - John Cage, American Composer, pioneer and exponent of experimental concepts, as indeterminacy, aleatoric music, and silence ...  (J. Cage's In a landscape, played by pianist Stephen Drury. Uploaded by Slow Basslines. Accessed September 5, 2018.)

1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress and singer. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage, after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C..

1946 - Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara), British singer-songwriter, record producer and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, and known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range.(Top 10 Freddie Mercury Moments. Uploaded by WatchMojo.com. Accessed September 5, 2017)

1950 - Cathy Lee Guisewite, American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."

1951 - Michael Keaton (born Michael John Douglas), American actor. He first rose to fame for his roles on the CBS sitcoms All's Fair and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour and his comedic film roles in Night Shift, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, and Beetlejuice.

Lefties:
Composer John Cage
Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite

More birthdays and historical events, September 5 - On This Day

Historical Events

1781 - The Battle of Chesapeake Capes takes place, part of the American War of Independence against the British. A French fleet under Admiral de Grasse fights the British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves. The actual sea battle is not conclusive, but it does have the effect of denying Cornwallis the support of the Royal Navy, leading to his eventual surrender to American forces at Yorktown.

1800 - French forces surrender on Malta, after Nelson arrives in the area and prevents them being resupplied. With no way of feeding them, Nelson allowed the French soldiers to withdraw to Marseilles.

September 4 Dateline

Birthdays

1768 - François-Auguste-René, Viscomte de Chateaubriand, French author and diplomat, one of his country’s first Romantic writers. He was the preeminent literary figure in France in the early 19th century and had a profound influence on the youth of his day.

1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian Romantic Composer, famous for his Seventh Symphony and Te Deum. (video: Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 conducted by Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra. YouTube, uploaded by Bohemian Brass. Accessed September 4, 2018.)

1892 - Darius Milhaud, French Composer, member of "Les Six" group of French composers.(Video: Pianists Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin interpret Milhaud's "Scaramouche."  YouTube, uploaded by Facconti. Accessed September 4, 2018)

1917 - Henry Ford II, American Car manufacturer, sometimes known as "HF2" or "Hank the Deuce", was a businessman in the automotive industry. He was the eldest son of Edsel Ford and eldest grandson of Henry Ford.

1928 - Dick York (born Richard Allen York), American radio, stage, film, and television Actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best-known motion-picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind.

1931 - Mitzi Gaynor (born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber), American Actress, Singer, and Dancer. Her notable films include There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray; and South Pacific, the 1958 motion picture adaptation of the stage musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.('I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy' from another Rodgers & Hammerstein musical masterpiece South Pacific. Uploaded by Project Unleash. Accessed September 4, 2014.)

1937 - Dawn Fraser, AC, MBE, Australian freestyle champion Swimmer and former Politician. She is one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle. Within Australia, she is often known for her controversial behaviour as much as for her athletic ability.

1969 - Noah George Taylor, British-Australian Actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Darby Sabini in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in Max and Preacher. 

1980 - David Garrett (born David Christian Bongartz), German classical and crossover violinist and recording artist. He's a violin virtuoso that blur the lines between Mozart and Metallica. At 13 y.o., Garrett had recorded two full-length CDs of violin music and was regular fixture on TV across Europe. He studied Musicology and composition at the Juilliard School of Music, and composed a fugue in the style of JS Bach which won the school's 2003 composition prize. Among his lauded instructors was the legendary violinist Itzhak Perlmann. His first proper album from 2007, Free, recording set out his stall as a crossover artist, tackling repertoire as diverse as Paganini's Caprice No. 24 to Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters'. (David Garrett & Filamonica della Scala - Max Bruch Violin Concer to No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. YouTube, uploaded by Wiola J. Accessed September 4, 2018.)

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Henry Ford II, Automobile manufacturer

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 4 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

476 - The Western Roman Empire falls when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor, is forced to abdicate by eastern rival Odoacer, who proclaims himself King of Italy. In turn, he is later murdered by the real king, Theodoric the Great.

1781 - Los Angeles City in California is founded as El pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula - the City of Our Lady, the queen of the Angels of the Little Portion - by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.