Famous Birthdays for 21st September 2026

1809 – Sophia Hawthorne, American writer, painter and illustrator, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1871)
1820 – Williams Carter Wickham, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1888)
1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1926)
1867 – Henry L. Stimson, American statesman (46th United States Secretary of State), born in New York City (d. 1950)
1885 – Thomas de Hartmann, Russian composer, born in Khoruzhivka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1956)
1930 – John Neel, American jazz and film score composer (Blue Martini; Scream of the Butterfly), born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1973)
1935 – Anthony Page, British stage and screen director (A Doll’s House; Middlemarch), born in Bangalore, British India (d. 2026)
1943 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer (Flashdance; Top Gun; Pirates of the Caribbean; CSI0 and NHL team owner (Seattle Kraken), born in Detroit, Michigan
1951 – Bruce Arena, American soccer coach (Olympic gold 1996), born in Brooklyn, New York
1967 – Andrea Thies, American rower (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Irvington, New York

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