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September 17, 2026
Every date gathers its own curious company.
Champions.
Comedians.
Directors.
Musicians.
Designers.
Programmers.
Pioneers.
And people whose names became permanently attached to the stories they helped create.
September 17 has quite a cast.
🎂 BORN ON SEPTEMBER 17
🏈 Patrick Mahomes
Three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, turning 31 today.
🖤 Cassandra Peterson
Better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the actress and performer celebrates her 75th birthday today.
🎬 Baz Luhrmann
Australian filmmaker known for visually exuberant movies including Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, and Elvis.
🎥 Paul Feig
Director, writer, and producer known for Bridesmaids and for co-creating Freaks and Geeks.
🏈📺 Kyle Chandler
Emmy-winning actor remembered especially as Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights.
😂 Bobby Lee
Stand-up comedian and actor known for MADtv and the podcast Bad Friends.
🎭 Danielle Brooks
Award-nominated actress known for Orange Is the New Black and The Color Purple.
🎶 BeBe Winans
Gospel and R&B singer from one of contemporary gospel music’s most celebrated musical families.
🎤 Slayyyter
Independent pop singer-songwriter.
🎮 Charles Martinet
Voice actor whose work became closely associated with Mario and other characters from Nintendo’s famous game universe.
🦔 Yuji Naka
Japanese video game designer and programmer best known as one of the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog.
🎸 Hank Williams Sr.
Born in 1923, the pioneering country singer-songwriter helped shape the sound and storytelling traditions of modern country music.
😂 John Ritter
Born in 1948, the beloved comic actor became famous through Three’s Company and a long career in television and film.
🎬 Anne Bancroft
Born in 1931, the Academy Award-winning actress became one of American cinema’s most memorable performers.
🤠 Billy the Kid
Born Henry McCarty in 1859, he became one of the most famous and mythologized outlaws of the American West.
🕯️ REMEMBERED ON SEPTEMBER 17
🏛️ Jon Kyl — 2026
Former U.S. Senator from Arizona, remembered for a long career in American public service.
✏️ King Kinya — 2026
Veteran Tanzanian editorial cartoonist whose work appeared in The Citizen.
✈️ Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge — 1908
U.S. Army Signal Corps officer remembered as the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft.
👗 Laura Ashley — 1985
Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman whose name became internationally associated with a distinctive romantic design style.
🎼 Hildegard von Bingen — 1179
German Benedictine abbess, writer, mystic, and composer whose work continues to fascinate scholars and musicians more than eight centuries later.
👑 Philip IV of Spain — 1665
Spanish monarch whose reign coincided with extraordinary artistic achievement during the Spanish Golden Age.
⚖️ Dred Scott — 1858
The enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful legal fight for freedom became one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases in United States history.
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Some lives become famous through achievement.
Others through art.
Others through tragedy.
Some leave behind songs.
Some characters.
Some institutions.
Some inventions.
Some questions that later generations are still trying to answer.
That may be what makes Births & Passings worth pausing over.
The dates tell us when someone arrived or departed.
The life between them tells us why we still know the name.
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