September 4: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is September 4th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on September 4th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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September 4th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

September 4th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Austrian sacred choral and orchestral composer Anton Bruckner was born on September 4, 1824.

Daniel Burnham, American designer and architect (Chicago's Railway Exchange Building and Monadnock Building), was born on September 4, 1946.

Alexander Liberman, Russian-American painter and sculptor (Abstraction, Gates of Hope and Two Circles), was born on September 4, 1912.

American shipbuilder and architect Donald McKay (Glory of the Seas, James Baines, Lightning and New World) was born on September 4, 1810.

German Bauhaus sculptor and painter Oskar Schlemmer (Bauhaustreppe, Grosse Sitzendengruppe and Scene on the Steps) was born on September 4, 1888.

Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect and urban planner, was born on September 4, 1913.

September 4th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Raymond (Ray) Loran, American golf champion, was born on September 4, 1942.

Dawn Lorraine Fraser, Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1956, 1960 and 1964), was born on September 4, 1937.

Shane Elizabeth Gould, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1972), was born on September 4, 1956.

Jearl Miles-Clark, American track star and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on September 4, 1966.

American golf champion Thomas (Tom) Sturgis Watson was born on September 4, 1949.

September 4th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Mary (Renault) Challans, British novelist (Alexander the Great, The Bull from the Sea, The Charioteer, Fire from Heaven, The King Must Die, The Mask of Apollo and The Persian Boy), was born on September 4, 1905.