Daily Calendar for Sunday, September 13, 2026
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Born
- Oliver Evans (inventor) –
- Clara Schumann (pianist & composer) –
- Milton Hershey (Chocolatier and founder of The Hershey Company; born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania) –
- Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist) –
- Sherwood Anderson (writer) –
- Leland Hayward (producer) –
- Claudette Colbert (actress) –
- Horace Babcock (astronomer) –
- Roald Dahl (author) –
- Else Holmelund Minarik (children’s author; Little Bear” series”) –
- Mel Torme (singer) –
- Peter Cetera (musician) –
- Jacqueline Bisset (actress) –
- Nell Carter (actress & singer) –
- Anne Geddes (photographer) –
- Michael Johnson (Olympic athlete) –
- Tyler Perry (actor and screenwriter) –
- Stella McCartney (fashion designer) –
- Fiona Apple (singer) –
- Ben Savage (actor) –
Died
- John Barry (commodore, father of the American navy) –
- Richard Merrell (television writer & actor) –
- George Wallace (politician) –
- Dorothy McGuire (actress) –
- Dilhan Eryurt (Turkish astrophysicist) –
- Frank Vincent (actor) –
- Eddie Money (singer) –
Events
- Halford Mackinder’s team became the first Europeans to summit Mount Kenya –
- Henry Bliss walked off a trolley and was hit by a speeding driver. The following day when he died from his injuries, he became the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile –
- The Chocolate Soldier opened in N.Y.C. –
- Chiang Kai-shek became president of China –
- Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress –
- IBM introduced the first computer with a disk storage system –
- A protester dressed as Batman scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace –
Weather
- Frost hit Albany, New York, ending the shortest growing season ever –