“Born Today”
- Wade Robson (33)
- Constantine Maroulis (40)
- Jimmie Johnson (40)
- Bobby Lee (43)
- Nate Berkus (44)
- Keith Flint (46)
- Matthew Settle (46)
- Anastacia (47)
- Malik Yoba (48)
- Doug E. Fresh (49)
- Bryan Singer (50)
- Kyle Chandler (50)
- Amy Roloff (51)
- James Urbaniak (52)
- Baz Luhrmann (53)
- Dustin Nguyen (53)
- BeBe Winans (53)
- Kevin Clash (55)
- Rita Rudner (62)
- Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson (64)
- John Ritter (RIP)
- Hank Williams (RIP)
“Died Today”
- Dred Scott (Born: 1799 / Died: September 17, 1858)
- Karl Popper (Born: July 28,1902 / Died: September 17, 1994)
- George Hamilton IV (Born: July 19, 1937 / Died: September 17, 2014)
“Movies”
- 1967 – Games
- 1969 – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- 1976 – The Front
- 1982 – Hammett
- 1993 – Airborne
- 1993 – Striking Distance
- 1993 – Into the West
- 1999 – Blue Streak
- 1999 – American Beauty
- 1999 – Breakfast of Champions
- 1999 – For Love of the Game
“Music”
- 1955 – Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded “Sixteen Tons”
- 1955 – Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” was #1 on the R&B chart for the seventh week
- 1964 – The Supremes released “Baby Love”
- 1964 – The Beatles performed in Kansas City, Missouri
- 1966 – “Land of 1000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett was the #1 song
- 1966 – Roger Williams’s “Born Free” was the #1 song on the Easy Listening chart
- 1966 – “You Can’t Hurry Love” by The Supremes was the #1 song for the second week
- 1971 – Lynn Anderson had the #1 Country album with You’re My Man
- 1972 – The Eagles performed in Jacksonville, Florida
- 1973 – Billy Joel recorded part of “Piano Man”
- 1973 – The Carpenters released “Top of the World”
- 1975 – Silver Convention released “Fly, Robin, Fly”
- 1977 – Ronnie McDowell’s “The King is Gone” (a tribute to Elvis Presley)was #40
- 1977 – Reba McEntire performed for the first time at the Grand Ole Opry
- 1977 – Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” was #1
- 1977 – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was the #1 album for the 19th week
- 1983 – Paul Young’s No Parlez was the #1 album in the U.K.
- 1983 – Prince’s “Delirious” was #37
- 1983 – The Police’s Synchronicity was the #1 album
- 1988 – Peter Cetera’s “One Good Woman” was the #1 song for the third week
- 1988 – “Another Part of Me” by Michael Jackson was the #1 song on the R&B chart
- 1988 – Def Leppard’s Hysteria was the #1 album
- 1991 – Use Your Illusion I/Use Your Illusion II were released by Guns N’ Roses
- 1994 – Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” was the #1 song
- 1997 – Fleetwood Mac started a reunion tour
“TV/Radio”
- 1931 – The first record that was 33 ⅓ rpms was played in NYC
- 1963 – ABC premiered the show The Fugitive
- 1964 – Bewitched premiered on ABC
“Other Important Events…”
- 1787 – The drafting of the U.S. Constitution finished
- 1954 – William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies was published
- 2011 – The Occupy Wall Street movement began in NYC