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