The Birthday Gazette

Born on September 11

September 11 birthdays & history

If you were born on September 11, you share a birthday with Sung Jae-gi, Bashar al-Assad and Franz Beckenbauer. September 11 babies are Virgo, with sapphire as their birthstone and the aster as their birth flower. September 11 is the 255th day of the year in leap years (254th in other years).

Famous people born on September 11

  • 1967Sung Jae-gi, South Korean activist, founded Man of Korea
  • 1965Bashar al-Assad, Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria
  • 1945Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager
  • 1885D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic
  • 1903Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher
  • 1862O. Henry, American short story writer
  • 1524Pierre de Ronsard, French poet and author
  • 1935Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
  • 1960Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1979Eric Abidal, French footballer

What happened on September 11

  • 1893Swami Vivekananda gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
  • 1903The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
  • 1914The Second Period of Russification: The teaching of the Russian language and Russian history in Finnish schools is ordered to be considerably increased as part of the forced Russification program in Finland run by Tsar Nicholas II.
  • 1921Nahalal, a Jewish moshav in Palestine, is settled.
  • 1922The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
  • 1941Construction begins on the Pentagon.
  • 1968John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir at the Proms.
  • 1971The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
  • 1972The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
  • 1977Atari, Inc. releases the Video Computer System (VCS), later renamed the Atari 2600 in 1982.
  • 1990A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
  • 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.

Also observed on September 11

  • National Day (Catalonia)
  • Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church), September 12 on leap years.
  • Teachers' Day (Argentina)

Questions, answered

What star sign is September 11?

People born on September 11 are Virgo. Their birthstone is sapphire and their birth flower is the aster.

Which famous people were born on September 11?

Sung Jae-gi (1967), Bashar al-Assad (1965), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Theodor Adorno (1903), O. Henry (1862) were all born on September 11.

What happened on September 11 in history?

Among other things: in 1977, Atari, Inc. releases the Video Computer System (VCS), later renamed the Atari 2600 in 1982; in 1990, A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru; in 1995, Mir 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.

Can I get a newspaper front page from September 11?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any September 11 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “September 11”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.