Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 11

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[edit] Births

• 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
• 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
• 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
• 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
• 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
• 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
• 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine high school shooter (d. 1999)

[edit] Deaths

• 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
• 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
• 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
• 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876) (pictured)
• 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1894)
• 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
• 2001 - John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)