If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn't. is my saying for today (September 1st)!
Quote of the day: "
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset." by James Gould Cozzens
Word of the day:
kakapo - noun: a large, nocturnal parrot of New Zealand
September 1st is the 244th day of the year (245th in a leap year) and there are 121 days left until the end of the year.
If today is your Birthday,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!September 1st Worldwide holidays and observances:
Constitution Day (Slovakia)
Independence Day (Uzbekistan)
If you would like your birthday or a family member, or even a friends included in my "Birthday List", just leave a comment with all the pertinent information like Name, nickname, occupation and date of birth!
Famous People who born on September 1st
1286, Queen of Poland, Elisabeth Richeza of Poland (d. 1335)
1453, Spanish general, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (d. 1515)
1566, English actor, Edward Alleyn (d. 1626)
1588, Prince of Condé, French nobleman, Henry II (d. 1646)
1651, Tsaritsa of Russia, Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina (d. 1694)
1653, German composer, Johann Pachelbel (d. 1706)
1689, Czech Baroque architect, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (d. 1751)
1711, Prince of Orange, William IV (d. 1759)
1795, American newspaper publisher, James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (d. 1872)
1818, First President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic, José María Castro Madriz (d. 1892)
1848, Swiss entomologist, Auguste-Henri Forel (d. 1931)
1854, German composer, Engelbert Humperdinck (d. 1921)
1855, Russian poet, Innokenty Annensky (d. 1909)
1856, Russian scientist, Sergei Winogradsky (d. 1953)
1866, American heavyweight boxer, James J. Corbett (d. 1933)
1868, French Canadian politician and publisher, Henri Bourassa (d. 1952)
1871, American Undersecretary of State, J. Reuben Clark, Jr. (d. 1961)
1875, American writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs (d. 1950)
1876, English political activist, Harriet Shaw Weaver (d. 1961)
1877, Nobel laureate, Francis William Aston (d. 1945)
1878, Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1878, British Army officer and military theorist, J.F.C. Fuller (d. 1966)
1883, French Canadian hockey player, Didier Pitre (d. 1934)
1884, Swedish actor and film director, Sigurd Wallén (d. 1947)
1886, Swiss composer and conductor, Othmar Schoeck (d. 1957)
1887, Swiss writer, Blaise Cendrars (d. 1961)
1888, Croatian physician, Andrija Štampar (d. 1958)
1892, 55th Governor of Massachusetts, Leverett Saltonstall (d. 1979)
1895, Indian musician, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar (d. 1974)
1895, German helicopter pioneer, Engelbert Zaschka (d. 1955)
1896, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, The Hare Krishna Movement, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (d. 1977)
1897, Irish footballer, Andy Kennedy (d. 1963)
1899, American actor, Richard Arlen (d. 1976)
1904, American actor, Johnny Mack Brown (d. 1974)
1905, Puerto Rican dancer, Elvera Sanchez (d. 2000)
1906, President of the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer (d. 2002)
1906, German composer, Franz Biebl (d. 2001)
1906, English writer, Eleanor Burford Hibertt (Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr...) (d. 1993)
1907, American labor union leader, Walter Reuther (d. 1970)
1907, American actress, Miriam Seegar
1908, Pakistani cricketer, Amir Elahi (d. 1980)
1909, Canadian diplomat, E. Herbert Norman (d. 1957)
1913, Austrian painter and graphic artist, Ludwig Merwart (d. 1979)
1913, American director and film editor, Christian Nyby (d. 1993)
1916, American tennis player, Dorothy Cheney
1919, South African cricketer, Ossie Dawson (d. 2008)
1920, American feminist writer, Liz Carpenter (d. 2010)
1920, American actor, Richard Farnsworth (d. 2000)
1921, Dutch writer, Willem Frederik Hermans (d. 1995)
1921, Indian cricketer, Madhav Mantri
1922, Canadian-born actress, Yvonne De Carlo (d. 2007)
1922, Italian actor, Vittorio Gassman (d. 2000)
1923, American boxer, Rocky Marciano (d. 1969)
1923, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman, Kenneth Thomson (d. 2006)
1925, American musician, Art Pepper (d. 1982)
1926, President of Bangladesh, Abdur Rahman Biswas
1926, American comic book artist, Gene Colan
1927, American author and screenwriter, Wyatt Cooper (d. 1978)
1928, Canadian politician, Clifford Lincoln
1928, American actor, George Maharis
1929, American actress, Anne Ramsey (d. 1988)
1931, American country musician, Boxcar Willie (d. 1999)
1931, British politician, Cecil Parkinson
1932, Nauruan politician, Derog Gioura
1932, American socialite, Sunny von Buelow (d. 2008)
1933, 45th Governor of Texas, Ann Richards (d. 2006)
1933, American singer, Conway Twitty (d. 1993)
1935, Japanese conductor, Seiji Ozawa
1937, American golfer, Al Geiberger
1937, American actor, Film director and screenwriter, Ron O'Neal (d. 2004)
1938, Danish artist, Per Kirkeby
1939, American actress and comedian, Lily Tomlin
1941, Australian rugby league footballer, Graeme Langlands
1942, American writer, C. J. Cherryh
1943, American actor, Don Stroud
1944, American conductor, Leonard Slatkin
1945, Turkish writer, Mustafa Balel
1946, American drummer, Greg Errico
1946, English singer, Barry Gibb
1946, President of South Korea, Roh Moo-Hyun (d. 2009)
1947, American politician, Al Green
1948, Polish archbishop and philosopher, Józef Zycinski
1949, Indian politician, P.A. Sangma
1950, American football coach, Phillip Fulmer
1950, American talk show host, Dr. Phil McGraw
1951, Romanian politician, Nicu Ceausescu (d. 1996)
1951, England cricketer, David Bairstow (d. 1998)
1952, American radio personality, Phil Hendrie
1953, American voice actor, Beau Billingslea
1953, American professional wrestler, Ted Petty (d. 2002)
1954, Canadian hockey player, Dave Lumley
1955, American martial artist, Billy Blanks
1955, English bassist, Bruce Foxton
1956, American basketball player, Vinnie Johnson
1956, American voice artist, Philece Sampler
1956, American broadcaster and editor, Bernie Wagenblast
1957, Cuban/American singer, Gloria Estefan
1957, Montenegrin basketball coach, Duško Ivanovic
1958, Finnish singer, Armi Aavikko (d. 2002)
1959, American sports journalist, Kenny Mayne
1960, American singer and film score composer, Joseph Williams
1961, American professional wrestler, Bam Bam Bigelow (d. 2007)
1962, Dutch footballer, Ruud Gullit
1962, Irish footballer, Tony Cascarino
1963, Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1963, Carola Smit, Dutch singer
1964, Canadian hockey player, Brian Bellows
1964, Irish DJ and TV presenter, Ray D'Arcy
1964, American cartoonist, Holly Golightly
1964, Swedish model, Cécilia Rhode
1965, Slovak politician, Ludovít Kaník
1966, American basketball player, Tim Hardaway
1967, Quebec politician, David Whissell
1968, Egyptian terrorist, Mohamed Atta (d. 2001)
1969, Norwegian footballer, Henning Berg
1970, South Korean actor, Hwang Jung-min
1970, Indian actress, Padma Lakshmi
1970, Quebec singer, Television and radio host, actress, Mitsou
1970, Croatian singer, Vanna
1971, American actor, Ricardo Antonio Chavira
1971, American soccer player, Joe Enochs
1971, Japanese composer, Yoshitaka Hirota
1971, French singer, Lââm
1971, American professional wrestler, Jimmy Snuka, Jr.
1971, Turkish footballer, Hakan Sükür
1972, British professional wrestler, Doug Williams
1973, Indian actor, Ram Kapoor
1973, Canadian singer, J. D. Fortune
1973, American football player, Zach Thomas
1974, American football player, Jason Taylor
1974, American comic book artist, Jhonen Vasquez
1975, English-born actor, Scott Speedman
1975, Australian actress and singer, Natalie Bassingthwaighte
1975, Puerto Rican musician, Omar Rodríguez-López
1975, American basketball player, Cuttino Mobley
1975, Flemish film director, R. Kan Albay
1976, Australian racing driver, Marcos Ambrose
1976, Mexican boxer, Erik Morales
1976, American actress, Jada Fire
1976, Canadian actress, Polly Shannon
1976, Chilean footballer, Sebastián Rozental
1976, England Woman cricketer, Clare Connor
1977, American football player, Aaron Schobel
1977, Italian racing driver, Raffaele Giammaria
1977, American stage actress, Shoshana Bean
1977, Indian television actor, Aamir Ali
1977, Spanish footballer, David Albelda
1977, American attorney and Muslim advocate, Arsalan Iftikhar
1978, Australian soccer player, Max Vieri
1978, English murder victim, Lucie Blackman (d. 2000)
1979, American Figure Skating Champion, Andrew Muldoon
1979, Irish footballer, James O'Connor
1980, English footballer, Chris Riggott
1980, Ghanaian footballer, Sammy Adjei
1980, American songwriter, Musician, Model and the son of Rod Stewart, Sean Stewart
1981, American football player, Clinton Portis
1981, Canadian voice actor, Michael Adamthwaite
1981, Australian basketball player, Adam Quick
1981, Australian Rower, Matthew McGuire
1982, American basketball player, Ryan Gomes
1982, Australian racing driver, Paul Dumbrell
1982, Canadian figure skater, Jeffrey Buttle
1983, Spanish footballer, José Antonio Reyes
1983, Canadian hockey player, Jeff Woywitka
1984, American musician, Joseph Trohman
1984, American footballer, Nick Noble
1984, Canadian hockey player, Rod Pelley
1985, Filipino-American singer, Camile Velasco
1985, American swimmer, Larsen Jensen
1986, French tennis player, Gaël Monfils
1986, English rugby union player, Anthony Allen
1987, New Zealand musician, Dann Hume
1988, American footballer, Gabriel Ferrari
1988, Bangladeshi cricketer, Mushfiqur Rahim
1989, German singer, Bill Kaulitz
1989, English footballer, Daniel Sturridge
1993, French singer, Ilona Mitrecey
1994, American singer, Bianca Ryan
Famous People who died on September 1st
1067, Baldwin V of Flanders
1159, Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256, Japanese shogun, Kujo Yoritsune (b. 1218)
1414, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England, William de Ros (b. 1369)
1557, French explorer, Jacques Cartier (b. 1491)
1581, Fourth Sikh Guru, Guru Ram Das (b. 1534)
1600, Czech physician, Tadeáš Hájek (b. 1525)
1615, French lawyer, Étienne Pasquier (b. 1529)
1648, French mathematician, Marin Mersenne (b. 1588)
1685, Welsh lawyer, Leoline Jenkins (b. 1625)
1687, English philosopher, Henry More (b. 1614)
1715, French sculptor, François Girardon (b. 1628)
1715, King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1818, British naval officer, Robert Calder (b. 1745)
1930, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician, Peeter Põld (b. 1878)
1938, American explorer, Part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, William Clark (b. 1770)
1943, Cameroonian chief, Charles Atangana (b. 1880)
1947, Father of the international Scouting movement, Frederick Russell Burnham (b. 1861)
1953, Australian poet, Bernard O'Dowd (b. 1866)
1957, English musician, Dennis Brain (b. 1921)
1967, English poet, Siegfried Sassoon (b. 1886)
1967, Nazi war criminal, Ilse Koch (b. 1906)
1969, American newspaper columnist, Drew Pearson (b. 1897)
1970, French writer, Nobel laureate, François Mauriac (b. 1885)
1977, Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
1981, Nazi official, Albert Speer (b. 1905)
1981, American actress, Ann Harding (b. 1901)
1982, American mathematician, Haskell Curry (b. 1900)
1982, Polish communist leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka (b. 1905)
1983, American politician, Henry M. Jackson (b. 1912)
1983, American congressman, Larry McDonald (b. 1935)
1985, German race car driver, Stefan Bellof (b. 1957)
1986, American actor, Murray Hamilton (b. 1923)
1988, American physicist, Nobel laureate, Luis Alvarez (b. 1911)
1989, American baseball commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti (b. 1938)
1989, Polish inventor, Tadeusz Sendzimir (b. 1894)
1990, Thai conservationist, Seub Nakhasathien (b. 1949)
1991, German graphic designer, Otl Aicher (b. 1922)
1994, American professional wrestler, Boris Malenko (b. 1933)
1998, Polish poet, Józef Krupinski (b. 1930)
1998, American golfer, Cary Middlecoff (b. 1921)
1999, Zambian computer scientist, W. Richard Stevens (b. 1951)
2001, British sports commentator, Brian Moore (b. 1932)
2003, British artist, Sir Terry Frost (b. 1915)
2004, Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmed Kuftaro (b. 1915)
2005, American musician, R. L. Burnside (b. 1926)
2005, Greek actor, Thanos Leivaditis (b. 1934)
2006, Welsh landscape painter, Kyffin Williams (b. 1918)
2006, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bob O'Connor (b. 1944)
2006, Wife of Texas governor John Connally, Nellie Connally (b. 1919)
2006, American pollster, Warren Mitofsky (b. 1934)
2007, New Zealand philanthropist, Roy McKenzie (b. 1922)
2008, American voice actor, Don LaFontaine (b. 1940)
2008, American musician and actor, Jerry Reed (b. 1937)
2008, Israeli-American mathematician, Oded Schramm (b. 1961)
2009, South Korean actress, Jang Jin-young (b. 1974)
2010, Japanese sumo wrestler, The 45th Yokozuna, Wakanohana Kanji I (b. 1928)
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