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Historical Anniversaries this Week
September 18

Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (died 1994)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Dorothy Wedderburn, English economist and academic (died 2012)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian target shooter
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian[48]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican photographer and painter
Deaths (350 years ago today): 1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (born 1604)[77]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (born 1907)
September 19

Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Pamela Brown, English actress (born 1917)
Commemorations:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 20

Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Asia Argento, Italian actress[47]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Moon Bloodgood, American actress[51]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Joel Gertner, American wrestling announcer
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer
Deaths (400 years ago today): 1625 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
September 21

Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Bedri Rahmi Eyübo?lu, Turkish painter and poet (born 1911)
Commemorations:
International Day of Peace
September 22

Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas ?iurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (died 2004)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Leila Hadley, American author (died 2009)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mireille Enos, American actress[49]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
September 23

Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Chris Hawkins, English journalist and producer
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Eric Miller, Irish rugby player, footballer, and coach
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Vitali Yeremeyev, Kazakhstani ice hockey player[50]
Deaths (350 years ago today): 1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the Académie française (born 1603)
September 24

Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
Births (400 years ago today): 1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician (died 1672)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and academic (died 2004)
Deaths (750 years ago today): 1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1208)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Earle Cabell, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1906)
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