Birthdays Date 1901 September | History by KabAstro

William Lyons (1901-1985)

Sep 4 British industrialist and automobile manufacturer (Jaguar cars), born in Blackpool, Lancashire

Sep 5 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1988)
Sep 5 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1981)
Sep 6 John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, born in New York City (d. 1995)
Sep 8 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister (1958-66) who was assassinated in 1966, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1966)
Sep 12 Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1975)
Sep 12 Ernst Pepping, German composer, born in Duisburg, Germany (d. 1981)
Sep 15 Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
Sep 16 Andrée Bunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32; World C'ship gold pairs 1926, 28, 30, 32), born in Paris, France (d. 1993)

Francis Chichester (1901-1972)

Sep 17 English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England

Sep 18 Harold Clurman, American theatrical producer and director (Deadline at Dawn), born in New York City (d. 1980)
Sep 19 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy), born in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (d. 1991)
Sep 20 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, born in Dannemarie, France (d. 1944)
Sep 21 Learie Constantine, West Indian cricket all-rounder, lawyer and politician (UK's first black peer), born in Diego Martin, Trinidad (d. 1971) [1]
Sep 22 Charles Huggins, American-Canadian physician and cancer researcher (1966 Nobel Prize), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1997)
Sep 22 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Russian woman who was the 2nd wife of Joseph Stalin, born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
Sep 23 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, born in Antwerp (d. 1987)
Sep 23 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1984), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986) [1]
Sep 25 Bud Houser, American field athlete (Olympic gold discus & shot put 1924, discus 1928), born in Winigan, Missouri (d. 1994)
Sep 25 Robert Bresson, French film director (A Man Escaped, Balthazar, at Random), born in Puy-de-Dôme, France (d. 1999)
Sep 26 Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1961)
Sep 26 George Raft, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot), born in New York City (d. 1980)
Sep 26 Ted Weems [Wemyes], American jazz trombonist, violin player and big band bandleader (Somebody Stole My Girl; Heartache), born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)

Ed Sullivan (1901-1974)

Sep 28 American newspaper columnist, and television host (The Ed Sullivan Show), born in New York City

Sep 28 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-American mathematician, and educator (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire (d. 1982)
Sep 28 Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress and comedienne (Pygmalion), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Sep 28 William S. Paley, American broadcast pioneer (President and CEO of CBS, 1928-90), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)

Sep 29 Italian-American nuclear physicist, gone fission, fermium (Nobel Prize 1938), born in Rome, Italy

Sep 29 Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
Sep 30 Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (Enemy Agent, I Remember Mama), born in Scheveningen, Netherlands (d. 1975)