Some famous birthdays today:

• Antoninus Pius (politician, born September 19, 86)
• Narendra Modi (politician, born September 17, 1950)
• Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet (politician, writer, economist, mathematician, philosopher, biographer, political scientist, sociologist, born September 17, 1743)
• Maʾmun (writer, born September 13, 786)
• Hank Williams (singer, singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, composer, street artist, yodeler, born September 17, 1923)
• Tomáš Berdych (tennis player, born September 17, 1985)
• Reinhold Messner (politician, writer, explorer, mountaineer, born September 17, 1944)
• Anne Bancroft (screenwriter, film director, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, character actor, born September 17, 1931)
• Baz Luhrmann (screenwriter, writer, film director, actor, film producer, born September 17, 1962)
• Janez Janša (politician, born September 17, 1958)
• Chaim Herzog (politician, military officer, writer, lawyer, diplomat, advocate, born September 17, 1918)
• Almazbek Atambayev (politician, economist, born September 17, 1956)
• Albert III, Duke of Austria (sovereign, born September 9, 1349)
• Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (playwright, screenwriter, born September 17, 1864)
• John Ritter (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born September 17, 1948)
• Periyar E. V. Ramasami (politician, born September 17, 1879)
• Jimmie Johnson (film actor, racing automobile driver, born September 17, 1975)
• Maureen Connolly (tennis player, born September 17, 1934)
• Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal (politician, economist, born September 17, 1916)
• Maria Luisa of Savoy (politician, born September 17, 1688)
• John Rutledge (politician, lawyer, judge, born September 17, 1739)
• Robert I, Count of Artois (aristocrat, born September 10, 1216)
• Virgilio Barco Vargas (politician, engineer, diplomat, civil engineer, born September 17, 1921)
• Max Švabinský (painter, postage stamp designer, lithographer, printmaker, born September 17, 1873)
• Vladimir Menshov (screenwriter, film director, actor, film actor, film producer, television presenter, presenter, academic lecturer, born September 17, 1939)
• Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (aristocrat, born September 17, 1630)
• Francis Chichester (aircraft pilot, explorer, born September 17, 1901)
• Dolores Costello (actor, film actor, stage actor, born September 17, 1903)