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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, September 10


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Births

* 1989 Sanjaya Malakar Finalist on sixth season of the popular television show American Idol.
* 1968 Big Daddy Kane Known as Big Daddy Kane, is a record producer/rapper from the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York.
* 1964 John E. Sununu Former Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire.
* 1960 Alison Bechdel American cartoonist.
* 1958 Siobhan Fahey Irish musician who was a founding member of Bananarama, and later the musical band Shakespears Sister.
* 1937 Jared Diamond American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, bio-geographer and nonfiction author.
* 1935 Mary Oliver American poet.
* 1933 Karl Lagerfeld German fashion designer, artist and photographer.
* 1923 Uri Avnery Israeli journalist, left wing peace activist, Knesset member, who was originally a member of the right wing Revisionist Zionist movement.
* 1919 Robert B. (physicist) Leighton Prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology.
* 1917 Miguel Serrano Chilean diplomat and Esoteric Hitlerist author.
* 1903 Cyril Connolly English author, editor and critic.
* 1897 Georges Bataille French writer.
* 1892 Arthur Compton American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect.
* 1890 Franz Werfel Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German.
* 1886 Hilda Doolittle Usually known only by her initials H D, was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.
* 1885 Carl Van Doren U S critic, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.
* 1872 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team.
* 1850 Benjamin Fish Austin Nineteenth century Canadian educator, Methodist minister, and Spiritualist.
* 1839 Charles Sanders Peirce American philosopher, chemist and polymath, who is now remembered as a pioneer of the field of semiotics and, with the formulation of the pragmatic maxim, the founder of the philosophies of Pragmatism and Pragmaticism.
* 1835 William Torrey Harris American educator, and lexicographer.
* 1755 Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.

Deaths

† 2009 Sam Hinton American folk singer and marine biologist, best known for popularizing traditional folksongs and folklore.
† 1988 Virginia Satir Psychotherapist, family therapist, co-founder of the Mental Health Research Institute in Menlo Park, founder of the International Human Learning Resources Network in 1970, and The Advanta Network in 1977; born Virginia Pagenkopf.
† 1985 Jock Stein Scottish football manager best known for his time as manager of Celtic and for managing the Scotland national football team.
† 1983 Felix Bloch Swiss physicist, who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Edward Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith".
† 1976 Dalton Trumbo American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
† 1935 Huey Long Known as "The Kingfish," was a Louisiana governor (1928–1932) and U S Senator (1932–1935).
† 1930 Aubrey Faulkner Leading cricketer for South Africa for two decades.
† 1922 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt British poet and writer.
† 1865 George Linley Verse-writer and musical composer.
† 1845 Joseph Story American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845.
† 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft English social philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights; wife of William Godwin, and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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