September 11 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 11, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#93 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 11 birthdays
O. Henry · American short story writer1862
Felix Dzerzhinsky · Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police1877
D. H. Lawrence · English writer and poet1885
Theodor W. Adorno · German philosopher, sociologist and theorist1903
Ferdinand Marcos · President of the Philippines from 1965 to 19861917
Arvo Pärt · Estonian composer1935
Brian De Palma · American film director and screenwriter1940
Serge Haroche · French physicist, Nobel laureate1944
Franz Beckenbauer · German sports official and association football player1945
Amy Madigan · American actress1950
Hiroshi Amano · Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist1960
Virginia Madsen · American actress1961
Moby · American musician, DJ and record producer1965
Sung Jae-gi · South Korean masculism activist1967
Taraji P. Henson · American actress1970
Ludacris · American rapper and actor1977
Eric Abidal · French footballer1979
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya · Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activist1982
Tyler Hoechlin · American actor1987
On this day in history
1775American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec.
1776British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War.
1789Alexander Hamilton, co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
1995Mir EO-19, the first expedition to the Russian space station Mir launched on an American Space Shuttle, returned to Earth after approximately 75 days in space.
1919United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
1978British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved.
1997NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2025Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his involvement in a coup plot.
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