What happened on September 21 ?

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)

1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)

1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)

1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)

1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)

1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)

1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)

1756 - John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)

1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)

1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)

1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)

1849 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905.

1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)

1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)

1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)

1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)

1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)

1874 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)

1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)

1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)

1902 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)

1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)

1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)

1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist

1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)

1920 - Jay Ward, American animator (d. 1988)

1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)

1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)

1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor

1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter

1935 - Henry Gibson, American actor

1936 - Yuri Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow

1940 - Bill Kurtis, American television journalist

1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director

1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist

1944 - Hamilton Jordan, Carter's 1ST Chief of Staff

1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer

1945 - Richard Childress, NASCAR Team Owner

1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army

1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor

1947 - Stephen King, American author

1947 - Marsha Norman, American playwright

1949 - Artis Gilmore, American basketball player

1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician

1950 - Bill Murray, American actor

1951 - Bruce Arena, American soccer coach

1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)

1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver

1954 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician

1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director

1955 - Richard Hieb, American astronaut

1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director

1959 - Dave Coulier, American actor

1960 - David James Elliott, Canadian actor

1961 - Nancy Travis, American actress

1962 - Rob Morrow, American actor

1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor

1963 - Curtly Ambrose, West Indian cricketer

1963 - Cecil Fielder, baseball player

1965 - Cheryl Hines, American actress

1967 - Faith Hill, American singer

1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)

1968 - Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess

1971 - John Crawley, Former England international cricketer

1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor

1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, Dominican-born actor

1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

1972 - Jon Kitna, American football player

1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (Ko?n)

1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer

1975 - Doug Davis, baseball player

1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer

1979 - Chris Gayle, West Indian cricketer

1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer

1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress

1981 - Nicole Richie, American actress

1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder

1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress

1991 - Zoe Weizenbaum, American child actress