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September 11 in recent years

September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 111 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1901 – D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman, founded Gold Kist (d. 1999)
  • 1903Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)
  • 1903 – Stephen Etnier, American lieutenant and painter (d. 1984)
  • 1904 – Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (d. 2010)
  • 1907Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (d. 1974)
  • 1908Alvar Lidell, English journalist (d. 1981)
  • 1911Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (d. 2000)
  • 1911 – Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
  • 1913Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
  • 1913 – Jacinto Convit, Venezuelan physician and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1914 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (d. 2009)
  • 1915 – Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (d. 2014)
  • 1916Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2015)
  • 1917Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (d. 2008)
  • 1917 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born English actor (d. 2012)
  • 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
  • 1917 – Jessica Mitford, English-American journalist and author (d. 1996)
  • 1917 – Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and horse breeder (d. 2001)
  • 1921Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and colonel (d. 2012)
  • 1923 – Betsy Drake, American actress (d. 2015)
  • 1923 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer and academic (d. 1984)
  • 1923 – Alan Badel, English actor (d. 1982)
  • 1924Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician (d. 2018)
  • 1924 – Tom Landry, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
  • 1924 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (d. 2006)
  • 1925Harry Somers, Canadian soldier and composer (d. 1999)
  • 1926 – Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (d. 2005)
  • 1927 – Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2011)
  • 1927 – G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (d. 1996)
  • 1928Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (d. 2014)
  • 1928 – Earl Holliman, American actor
  • 1929 – Luis García, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
  • 1929 – Primož Kozak, Slovenian playwright (d. 1981)
  • 1929 – Patrick Mayhew, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
  • 1930Cathryn Damon, American actress and dancer (d. 1987)
  • 1930 – Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (d. 1998)
  • 1930 – Saleh Selim, Egyptian footballer, manager, and actor (d. 2002)
  • 1931Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1933 – Margaret Booth, English lawyer and judge (d. 2021)
  • 1933 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
  • 1933 – Nicola Pietrangeli, Italian tennis player
  • 1934Oliver Jones, Canadian pianist and composer
  • 1935Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
  • 1935 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2000)
  • 1936Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (d. 2014)
  • 1937 – Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
  • 1937 – Queen Paola of Belgium
  • 1938 – David Higgins, English composer and conductor (d. 2006)
  • 1938 – Brian F. G. Johnson, English chemist and academic
  • 1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems (d. 2021)
  • 1940Brian De Palma, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1940 – Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician
  • 1941Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Civil Rights activist and Little Rock Nine member
  • 1942Lola Falana, American actress, singer, and dancer
  • 1943 – André Caillé, Canadian chemist and businessman
  • 1943 – Mickey Hart, American musician
  • 1943 – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-English journalist and actor
  • 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (d. 1974)
  • 1944 – Freddy Thielemans, Belgian educator and politician, Mayor of Brussels
  • 1945Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (d. 2024)
  • 1945 – Gianluigi Gelmetti, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2021)
  • 1945 – Leo Kottke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1946 – Dennis Tufano, American rock singer
  • 1948John Martyn, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
  • 1949 – Roger Uttley, English rugby player and coach
  • 1949 – Bill Whittington, American racing driver
  • 1950Anne Dell, Australian biochemist and academic
  • 1950 – Bruce Doull, Australian footballer
  • 1950 – Amy Madigan, American actress
  • 1950 – Barry Sheene, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster (d. 2003)
  • 1951Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2008)
  • 1951 – Richard D. Gill, English-Dutch mathematician and academic
  • 1951 – Johnny Neumann, American basketball player and coach (d. 2019)
  • 1951 – Hugo Porta, Argentinian rugby player
  • 1952 – Catherine Bott, English soprano
  • 1953Jani Allan, English-South African journalist and author
  • 1953 – Sarita Francis, Former Montserrat Deputy Governor
  • 1953 – Renée Geyer, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
  • 1953 – Tommy Shaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1955 – Sharon Lamb, American psychologist and academic
  • 1956 – Tony Gilroy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1958Roxann Dawson, American actress and director
  • 1958 – Scott Patterson, American actor and baseball player
  • 1959 – Andre Dubus III, American novelist and short story writer
  • 1959 – David Frost, South African golfer
  • 1959 – John Hawkes, American actor
  • 1960Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1960 – Michael P. Leavitt, American soldier
  • 1960 – Anne Ramsay, American actress
  • 1961Philip Ardagh, English author
  • 1961 – Virginia Madsen, American actress
  • 1961 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (d. 2012)
  • 1962 – Filip Dewinter, Belgian politician
  • 1962 – Kristy McNichol, American actress
  • 1962 – Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian pianist and composer
  • 1962 – Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
  • 1962 – Jenny Sanford, American banker and businesswoman
  • 1963 – Dave Bidini, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1964Ellis Burks, American baseball player
  • 1965Bashar al-Assad, Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria
  • 1965 – Paul Heyman, American wrestling promoter, manager, and journalist
  • 1965 – Moby, American singer-songwriter, musician, and DJ
  • 1967 – Maria Bartiromo, American financial journalist and television personality
  • 1967 – Harry Connick Jr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, actor, and talk show host
  • 1967 – Sung Jae-gi, South Korean activist, founded Man of Korea (d. 2013)
  • 1967 – Charles Walker, English politician
  • 1968 – Allan Alaküla, Estonian journalist
  • 1968 – Paul Mayeda Berges, American director and screenwriter
  • 1969 – Stefano Cagol, Italian artist, photographer and director
  • 1969 – Eduardo Pérez, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
  • 1970 – Antonio Gómez Medina, Mexican wrestler
  • 1970 – Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
  • 1971 – Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1974DeLisha Milton-Jones, American basketball player and coach
  • 1975 – Juan Cobián, Argentinian footballer
  • 1975 – Pierre Issa, South African footballer
  • 1976 – Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
  • 1976 – Murali Kartik, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
  • 1977Jonny Buckland, Welsh guitarist
  • 1977 – Ludacris, American rapper and producer
  • 1977 – Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
  • 1977 – Tobias Zellner, German footballer
  • 1978 – Ben Lee, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 1978 – Ed Reed, American football player
  • 1978 – Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer and manager
  • 1979Eric Abidal, French footballer
  • 1979 – Frank Francisco, Dominican baseball player
  • 1979 – David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
  • 1979 – Ariana Richards, American actress and artist
  • 1980 – Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1980 – Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian racing driver
  • 1981 – Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
  • 1981 – Charles Kelley, American singer and musician
  • 1981 – Michael Sukkar, Australian politician
  • 1982 – Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-Turkish runner
  • 1982 – Yelena Parkhomenko, Azerbaijani volleyball player
  • 1982 – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian politician
  • 1983 – Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner
  • 1983 – Ike Diogu, Nigerian-American basketball player
  • 1983 – Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
  • 1984 – Aled de Malmanche, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1984 – Benson Stanley, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1985Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
  • 1985 – Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1986 – Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
  • 1986 – LaToya Sanders, American basketball player
  • 1986 – Ben Scrivens, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1987 – Robert Acquafresca, Italian footballer
  • 1987 – Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress
  • 1987 – Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
  • 1988Mike Moustakas, American baseball player
  • 1989 – Michael J. Willett, American actor and musician
  • 1990 – Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian footballer
  • 1990 – Jarrod Croker, Australian rugby league player
  • 1991 – Jordan Ayew, Ghanaian footballer
  • 1991 – Rhema Obed, English footballer
  • 1991 – Kygo, Norwegian DJ
  • 1992 – Jonathan Adams, English discus thrower
  • 1992 – Ahmed El Sheikh, Egyptian footballer
  • 1993 – Farrah Moan, American drag queen and entertainer
  • 1994Teuvo Teräväinen, Finnish ice hockey player
  • 1996 – Ross Colton, American professional ice hockey player
  • 1997 – Harmony Tan, French tennis player
  • 2000 – Leandro Bolmaro, Argentine-Italian basketball player
  • 2001 – Mackenzie Aladjem, American actress
  • 2001 – Harrison Graham, Australian rugby league player
  • 2001 – Nicholas Robertson, American ice hockey player

Deaths

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1601–1900

1901–present

Holidays and observances

See also

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