Famous people born on 1 September

• Edgar Rice BurroughsAmerican writer · 1875–1950
  74 yrs
• Roh Moo-hyun16th President of the Republic of Korea · 1946–2009
  62 yrs
• Al-Shafi'iArab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar · AD 767–820
  52 yrs
• Francis William AstonBritish chemist · 1877–1945
  68 yrs
• A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaIndian spiritual teacher and founder of the ISKCON · 1896–1977
  81 yrs
• Roy J. GlauberAmerican theoretical physicist · 1925–2018
  93 yrs
• Johann Pachelbel ↗German composer, organist and teacher · 1653–1706
  52 yrs
• Rocky Marciano ↗American heavyweight boxing champion · 1923–1969
  45 yrs
• Vittorio Gassman ↗Italian actor · 1922–2000
  77 yrs
• José Antonio Reyes ↗Spanish footballer · 1983–2019
  35 yrs
• Talaat Paşa ↗Turkish Ottoman politician · 1874–1921
  46 yrs
• Yvonne De Carlo ↗Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer · 1922–2007
  84 yrs
• Blaise Cendrars ↗Swiss writer · 1887–1961
  73 yrs
• William Stanley Jevons ↗English economist and logician · 1835–1882
  46 yrs
• Pedro Cea ↗Uruguayan footballer · 1900–1970
  70 yrs
• Valery Legasov ↗Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster · 1936–1988
  51 yrs
• John I of Castile and Leon ↗King of Castille and Leon · 1358–1390
  32 yrs
• Mohamed Atta ↗Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks · 1968–2001
  33 yrs
• Richard Farnsworth ↗American actor · 1920–2000
  80 yrs
• Auguste Forel ↗Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist · 1848–1931
  82 yrs
• Engelbert Humperdinck ↗German composer · 1854–1921
  67 yrs
• Joaquín Balaguer ↗President of the Dominican Republic · 1906–2002
  95 yrs
• Michel Serres ↗French philosopher and historian of science · 1930–2019
  88 yrs
• Roger Casement ↗Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet · 1864–1916
  51 yrs
• Seiji Ozawa ↗Japanese orchestra conductor · 1935–2024
  88 yrs
• William IV, Prince of Orange ↗Hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands · 1711–1751
  40 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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