Comic Book Day
September 25
Yearly Date: Always on September 25th
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“The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.”
September 1, 1908- Estee Lauder, founded cosmetics & fragrance company
September 1, 1922- Yvonne DeCarlo, actress
September 1, 1923- Rocky Marciano, champion boxer
September 1, 1931- Boxcar Willie (Lecil Travis Martin), country singer
September 1, 1933- Conway Twitty, country singer
September 1, 1939- Lily Tomlin, actress, comedian
September 1, 1946- Barry Gibb, singer, songwriter, member of the “Bee Gees”
September 1, 1950- “Dr. Phil” McGraw, TV personality on “Oprah Winfrey” and “Dr. Phil” shows
September 1, 1957- Gloria Estefan, singer, Latin Pop music
September 2, 1917- 1923 Marge Champion, dancer, actress
September 2, 1937- Peter Ueberroth, MLB baseball commissioner
September 2, 1948- Terry Bradshaw, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, sportscaster
September 2, 1948- Christa McAuliffe, teacher, astronaut killed in Challenger space shuttle explosion
September 2, 1951- Mark Harmon, actor
September 2, 1952- Jimmy Connors, Hall of Fame tennis champion
September 2, 1955- Linda Purl, actress
September 2, 1964- Keanu Reeves, actor
September 2, 1968- Salma Hayek, actress
September 3, 1856- Louis H. Sullivan, architect, developed skyscrapers
September 3, 1913- Alan Ladd, actor, “Shane”
September 3, 1915- Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress
September 3, 1923- Mort Walker, cartoonist, created “Beetle Bailey”
September 3, 1965- Charlie Sheen, actor
September 4, 1918- Paul Harvey, radio personality, quote: “And now, the rest of the story”
September 4, 1920- Craig Claiborne, cookbook author, food critic
September 4, 1930- Mitzi Gaynor, actress, singer, dancer
September 4, 1949- Tom Watson, professional golfer
September 4, 1951- Judith Ivey, actress
September 4, 1960- Damon Wayans, actor, comedian
September 4, 1970- Ione Syke, actress, daughter of singer “Donovan”
September 4, 1981- Beyonce Knowles, singer, solo and once member of “Destiny’s Child”
September 5, 1847- Jesse James, Outlaw, bank and train robber
September 5, 1897- Arthur C. Neilsen, founder of A. C. Neilsen Co., market research firm
September 5, 1905- Arthur Koestler, novelist
September 5, 1912- John Cage, composer
September 5, 1929- Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
September 5, 1934- Carol Lawrence, singer, actress
September 5, 1939- William Devane, actor
September 5, 1940- Raquel Welch, actress
September 5, 1951- Michael Keaton, actor. Movies; Birdman, Batman, Beetlejuice.
September 5, 1960- Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist, created “Cathy”
September 5, 1969- Dweezil Zappa, singer, actor, son of Frank Zappa
September 6, 1757- Marquis de Lafayette, French general assisted America during the Revolutionary War
September 6, 1766- John Dalton, chemist, physicist, formulated atomic theory
September 6, 1800- Catharine Beecher, educator
September 6, 1888- Joseph P. Kennedy, Kennedy family patriarch
September 6, 1937- Jo Anne Worley, comedian, actress
September 6, 1947- Jane Curtin, actress, SNL, 3rd Rock
September 6, 1958- Jeff Foxworthy, American comedain, actor, author
September 6, 1961- Jennifer Tilly, actress
September 7, 1860- Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Moses), painter
September 7, 1908- Michael DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon
September 7, 1909- Elia Kazan, director, producer
September 7, 1923- Peter Lawford, actor
September 7, 1931- Al McGuire, basketball coach, sportscaster
September 7, 1936- Buddy Holly, singer, musician
September 7, 1947- Ann Beattie, writer
September 7, 1949- Gloria Gaynor, singer “I Will Survive”
September 7, 1954- Corbin Bernsen, actor, “Arnie Becker” on TV series “L.A. Law”
September 8, 1157- Richard I, King of England- “Richard the Lion-Hearted”
September 8, 1841- Antonin Dvorak, composer
September 8, 1922- Sid Caesar, actor, comedian
September 8, 1925- Peter Sellers, award winning british comedian and actor
September 8, 1932- Patsy Cline, country singer
September 8, 1941- Bernie Sanders, American politician
September 8, 1957- Heather Thomas, actress
September 8, 1981- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor, “Randy Taylor” On TV series “Home Improvement”
September 9, 1585- Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis), French statesman
September 9, 1890- Harland Sanders, “Colonel Sanders”, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken
September 9, 1925- Cliff Robertson, actor (La Jolla, CA)
September 9, 1934- Sylvia Miles, actress
September 9, 1941- Otis Redding, singer, “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay”
September 9, 1949- Joe Theisman, NFL Washington Redskins quarterback, sportscaster
September 9, 1951- Tom Wopat, actor, singer
September 9, 1951- Michael Keaton, actor
September 9, 1952- Angela Cartwright, actress
September 9, 1960- Hugh Grant, British actor
September 9, 1966- Adam Sandler, actor, comedian
September 10, 1898- Waldo Semon, chemist, invented vinyl
September 10, 1907- Fay Wray, actress
September 10, 1929- Arnold Palmer, golfer
September 10, 1934- Charles Kuralt, TV journalist, newscaster
September 10, 1934- Roger Maris, baseball player, homerun slugger
September 10, 1945- Jose Feliciano, singer
September 10, 1953- Amy Irving, actress
September 10, 1975- Ryan Phillippe, actor
September 11, 1862- O. Henry (William S. Porter), short-story writer
September 11, 1913- Paul “Bear” Bryant, football coach
September 11, 1924- Tom Landry, NFL Dallas Cowboys coach
September 11, 1940- Brian DePalma, filmmaker
September 11, 1946- Lola Falana, actress
September 11, 1962- Kristy McNichol, actress
September 11, 1967- Harry Connick Jr., actor, singer
September 11, 1977- Ludacris- American rapper, actor, orn Christopher Bridges
September 12, 1888- Maurice Chevalier, actor, singer, sang “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”
September 12, 1913- Jesse Owens, champion Olympic track and field star
September 12, 1942- Linda Gray, actress, “Sue Ellen Ewing” on TV series “Dallas”
September 12, 1944- Barry White, singer
September 12, 1957- Rachel Ward, actress
September 12, 1978- Ruben Studdard, “American Idol” winner
September 13, 1851- Walter Reed, army physician, bacteriologist, Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. named in his honor
September 13, 1860- John J. Pershing, World War I General
September 13, 1903- Claudette Colbert, actress
September 13, 1925- Mel Torme, singer, songwriter
September 13, 1938- Judith Martin, author, write, “Miss Manners”
September 13, 1944- Jacqueline Bisset, actress
September 13 * 1944- Peter Cetera, singer, member of band “Chicago”
September 13, 1959- Fred Silverman, TV producer
September 13, 1980- Ben Savage, actor, “Cory Matthews” on TV series “Boy Meets World”
September 14, 1914- Clayton Moore, actor, the “Lone Ranger”
September 14, 1936- Walter Koenig, actor, director, producer
September 14, 1956- Joe Penny, actor
September 14, 1959- Mary Crosby, actress
September 14, 1964- Faith Ford, actress
September 15, 1857- Willaim Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President(1909-1913), chief justice of the Supreme Court
September 15, 1890- Agatha Christie, mystery writer
September 15, 1903- Roy Acuff, country singer
September 15, 1907- Fay Wray, actress, “King Kong”
September 15, 1921- Jackie Cooper, actor, director, producer
September 15, 1938- Gaylord Perry, MLB baseball pitcher
September 15, 1940- Merlin Olsen, football player, sportscaster, actor
September 15, 1946- Tommy Lee Jones, actor, “M.I.B.”
September 15, 1946- Oliver Stone, director, screenwriter
September 15, 1961- Dan Marino, NFL Miami Dolphins quarterback
September 15, 1984- Prince Harry, England Duke of Sussex
September 16, 1722- Samuel Adams, 4th President of the United States
September 16, 1914- Allen Funt, TV producer, “Smile, You’re on Candid Camera”
September 16, 1924- Lauren Bacall, actress
September 16, 1924- B. B. King, blues singer
September 16, 1926- John Knowles, novelist
September 16, 1927- Peter Falk, actor, TV series “Columbo”
September 16, 1949- Ed Begley Jr., actor
September 16, 1956- David Copperfield, magician
September 16, 1958- Orel Hershiser, MLB baseball pitcher
September 16, 1964- Molly Shannon, actress, comedian, “SNL”
September 16, 1971- Amy Poehler, U.S. actress, “SNL”
September 17, 1896- Sam Ervin Jr., Key figure in the Senate Watergate investigation
September 17, 1907- Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court
September 17, 1928- Roddy McDowall, actor, “Planet of the Apes” movies
September 17, 1931- Anne Bancroft, actress
September 17, 1944- James Brady, gun control advocate, presidential press secretary during Reagan administration
September 17, 1945- Phil Jackson, NBA basketball player, coach
September 17, 1947- Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, created “Shoe”
September 17, 1948- John Ritter, actor, comedian, TV series “Three’s Company”
September 18, 1905- Agnes DeMille, dancer, choreographer
September 18, 1905- Greta Garbo, actress
September 18, 1920- Jack Warden, actor
September 18, 1933- Robert Blake, actor, TV series “Baretta”
September 18, 1939 -Frankie Avalon, singer, actor
September 18, 1971- Lance Armstrong, six time Tour de France cycling champion
September 19, 1929- Adam West, actor “Batman”
September 19, 1930- Rosemary Harris, actress
September 19, 1933- David McCallum, actor, “Illya Kuryakin” on TV series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
September 19, 1940- Paul Williams, singer, songwriter
September 19, 1941- Cass Elliot, singer, member of the “Mamas and the Papas”
September 19, 1949- Leslie Lawson “Twiggy”, model, actress, “Laugh-In”
September 19, 1951- Joan Lunden, host of ABC TV’s “Good Morning America”
September 19, 1974- Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian, host of “Tonight Show” Saturday Night Live
September 20, 1878- Upton Sinclair, novelist
September 20, 1928- Dr. Joyce Brothers, TV Psychologist
September 20, 1934- Sophia Loren, actress
September 20, 1951- Guy LaFleur, NHL hockey player
September 20, 1957- Gary Cole, actor
September 20, 1964- Crispin Glover, actor
September 20, 1967- Kristen Johnston, actress
September 21, 1866- H. G. Wells, novelist
September 21, 1931- Larry Hagman, actor “I Dream of Jeannie” and “J.R. Ewing” on “Dallas”
September 21, 1935- Henry Gibson, actor, comedian, “Laugh-In”
September 21, 1947- Stephen King, novelist, horror stories
September 21, 1950- Bill Murray, actor, comedian
September 21, 1962- Rob Morrow, actor, TV shows “Northern Exposure” and “NUMBERS”
September 21, 1967- Faith Hill, singer, song writer, actress
September 21, 1968- Riki Lake, actor
September 22, 1902- John Houseman, actor, producer, director
September 22, 1927- Tommy Lasorda, MLB baseball manager
September 22, 1956- Debby Boone, singer
September 22, 1960- Joan Jett, singer, guitarist
September 22, 1961- Scott Baio, actor
September 22, 1964- Bonnie Hunt, actress
September 23, 63 B.C.- Agustus, Roman Emperor
September 23, 1897- Walter Pidgeon, actor
September 23, 1920- Mickey Rooney, actor
September 23, 1930- Ray Charles, singer, songwriter
September 23, 1943- Julio Iglesias, singer
September 23, 1949- Bruce Springsteen, singer, songwriter
September 23, 1959- Jason Alexander, actor played George on “Seinfeld”
September 24, 1755- John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court
September 24, 1896- F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist
September 24, 1921- Jim McKay, sportscaster
September 24, 1936- Jim Henson, puppeteer, created the “Muppets”
September 24, 1941- Linda McCartney, wife of Beatles’ Paul McCartney
September 24, 1948- Phil Hartman, actor, SNL
September 24, 1962- Nia Vardalos, actress, movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
September 25, 1917- Phil Rizzuto, MLB baseball player, and sportscaster
September 25, 1931- Barbara Walters, TV journalist, news reporter
September 25, 1944- Michael Douglas, actor
September 25, 1947- Cheryl Tiegs, model
September 25, 1951- Mark Hamill, actor played Luke in “Star Wars”
September 25, 1952- Christopher Reeve, actor, “Superman” movie
September 25, 1961- Heather Locklear, actress
September 25, 1968- Will Smith, actor, “MIB”
September 25, 1969- Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
September 26, 1774- Johnny Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed”
September 26, 1888- T. S. Eliot, poet
September 26, 1898- George Gershwin, composer
September 26, 1914- Jack LaLanne, fitness guru
September 26, 1947- Lynn Anderson, singer
September 26, 1947- Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress, starred in movie “Grease”
September 26, 1949- Jane Smiley, novelist
September 26, 1956- Linda Hamilton, actress
September 26, 1968- James Caviezel, “Jesus” in movie “Passion of the Christ”
September 26, 1981- Serena Williams, tennis player
September 27, 1722- Samuel Adams, Revolutionary War leader, politician
September 27, 1840- Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
September 27, 1917- Louis Auchincloss, writer
September 27, 1920- William Conrad, actor
September 27, 1947- Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), singer, musician
September 27, 1959- Shaun Cassidy, actor, singer
September 27, 1972- Gwenyth Paltrow, American actress
September 28, 1573- Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio, painter
September 28, 1901- Ed Sullivan, TV personality, “The Ed Sullivan show”
September 28, 1909- Al Capp, cartoonist, created “Li’l Abner”
September 28, 1923- William Windom, actor
September 28, 1924- Marcello Mastroianni, actor
September 28, 1934- Brigitte Bardot, actress
September 28, 1964- Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
September 28, 1973- Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
September 29, 106 B.C.- Pompey, Roman General and politician
September 29, 1901- Enrico Fermi, nuclear physicist
September 29, 1907- Gene Autry, actor, singer, the “Singing Cowboy”
September 29, 1913- Stanley Kramer, producer, director
September 29, 1916- Trevor Howard, actor
September 29, 1935- Jerry Lee Lewis, singer, musician
September 29, 1948- Bryant Gumbel, TV journalist, newsman
September 29, 1970 -Emily Lloyd, actress
September 30, 1917- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer
September 30, 1921- Deborah Kerr, actress
September 30, 1924- Truman Capote, novelist
September 30, 1931- Angie Dickinson, actress
September 30, 1935- Johnny Mathis, singer
September 30, 1954- Barry Williams, actor
September 30, 1957- Fran Drescher, actress
September 30, 1964- Crystal Bernard, actress
September 30, 1971- Jenna Elfman, actress, “Dharma” on TV series “Dharma and Greg”
September 30, 1981- Dominique Moceanu, gymnast