September

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875) American author of “Tarzan” novels

Rocky Marciano (1923) heavyweight boxing champion

Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani (1838) queen of Hawaii

Eugene Field (1850) American writer, often called “The Poet of
Childhood”

Sarah Orne Jewett

(1849) American author of stories about New England

Macfarlane Burnet (1899) Australian doctor and expert in virus
diseases

Fran§ois-Rene de

Chateaubriand (1768) French author

Richard Wright

(1908) American author

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in September? The names of some of the famous people
born in September are shown on the calendar on this page and the next.
What do you know about the person who shares your birthday?

Johann Christian

Bach (1735) German composer and organist

Jesse James (1847) a colorful character of the Old West

Marquis de Lafayette (1757) French soldier and statesman

Jane Addams

(1860) American social reformer

Elizabeth I (1533) queen of England

Grandma Moses (1860) American painter whose full name was Anna Mary
Robertson Moses

Antonin Dvorak

(1841) Czech composer

Robert A. Taft

(1889) U.S. senator from Ohio

Cardinal Richelieu

(1585) French statesman

Harland Sanders

(1890) Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame

Arnold Palmer

(1929) American golf champion

Jose Feliciano

(1945) American composer and guitarist

William Porter (1862) American author who wrote under the name of 0.
Henry

James H. Jeans (1877) English scientist

Irene Joliot-Curie

(1897) French scientist and Nobel Prize winner

Jesse Owens (1913) American athlete and Olympic champion

Walter Reed (1851)

American doctor who proved mosquitoes carry yellow fever

John J. Pershing

(1860) U.S. general in World War I

Alexander von Humboldt (1769) German scientist and geographer

Margaret Sanger (1883) founder of Planned Parenthood

James Fenimore Cooper (1789) American; wrote The Last of the
Mohicans

William H. Taft (1857) 27th President of the United States

Francis Parkman

(1823) American historian and writer

James J. Hill (1838)

American railroad builder, known as the “Empire Builder”

Friedrich Augustin von Steuben (1730) German who fought in American
Revolution

Hank Williams

(1923) writer and singer of country and western songs

Samuel Johnson

(1709) English author who is famous for writing a dictionary

John Diefenbaker

(1895) a prime minister of Canada

Lajos Kossuth (1802) Hungarian patriot

Rachel Field (1894) American author of Hitty, Her First Hundred
Years, and other children’s books

Elizabeth Kenny

(1886) Australian nurse who helped victims of polio

Jelly Roll Morton (1885) composer of American ragtime and jazz music

Girolamo

Savonarola (1452)

Italian religious reformer

Louis Jolliet (1645)

French-Canadian explorer

Lord Chesterfield

(1694) English statesman and author

Michael Faraday

(1791) English scientist

William McGuffey

(1800) American educator; published the McGuffey readers

Louise Nevelson

(1900) American sculptress

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1895) American novelist and short-story writer

James Henson (1936) American puppeteer, creator of the “Muppets”

William H. Hughes (1862) prime minister of Australia

Barbara Walters

(1931) American newscaster and interviewer

Johnny Appleseed

(1774) American pioneer planter of apple trees; real name John Chapman

George Gershwin

(1898) American composer

Samuel Adams

(1722) American patriot

Thomas Nast (1840) American cartoonist; started present-day idea of
Santa Claus

Frances E. Willard

(1839) American educator

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856) American author of children’s books

Horatio Nelson

(1758) Britain’s greatest admiral and naval hero

Enrico Fermi (1901)

Italian-American nuclear physicist

Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882) German inventor of the Geiger counter

Truman Capote (1924) American author