List of Famous people born on September 8th
Jason Collier
Jason Jeffrey Collier was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the first active NBA player to die since Malik Sealy in 2000.
Za'Darius Smith
Za'Darius Smith is an American football outside linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Kentucky, and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist, convicted fraudster, and accused cult leader who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
Rampal
Rampal is an Indian religious leader from Kabir Panth. He is a disciple of Swami Ramdevanand who was a Garib Das panthi Saint. He was initiated from him on February 17, 1988. In 1994, Swami Ramdevanand chose him the successor. He claims that Kabir is the Supreme God. He preaches against meat-eating, intoxication, dowry, temple/deity worship, adultery, and unnecessary donation/charity, etc. His followers established Satlok Ashram in 1999 in Rohtak, Haryana.
Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate is an American film and television actor. Tate is best known for his roles as O-Dog in Menace II Society and as Councilman Rashad Tate in Power. Tate's other films and television series include the films Dead Presidents, Love Jones, A Man Apart, Crash, Waist Deep, Ray and the television series Rush and Game of Silence.
Bhupen Hazarika
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Xudha kontho from the indigenous ethnic Kaibarta community of Assam. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam (India), West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1977), and Padmabhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He was posthumously awarded both the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012, and the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.
Adrian Cronauer
Adrian Joseph Cronauer was a United States Air Force Airman 1st Class and radio personality whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.
Pavel Astakhov
Pavel Alekseyevich Astakhov is a Russian politician, celebrity lawyer and television personality.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American writer and lawyer who assassinated United States President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. Guiteau falsely believed he had played a major role in Garfield's victory, for which he should be rewarded with a consulship. He was so offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris that he decided to kill Garfield, and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died two months later from infections related to the wounds. In January 1882, Guiteau was sentenced to death for the crime, and was hanged five months later.
Krzysztof Krawczyk
Krzysztof January Krawczyk was a Polish baritone pop singer, guitarist and composer. He was the vocalist of a popular Polish band, Trubadurzy, from 1963 to 1973 when he started his solo career. He was co-founder of the Post-secondary School of Stage Art in Łódź. His creative activity in the area of music was characterized by a combination of various music genres such as rock and roll, country music and rhythm & blues. His album To co w życiu ważne reached number one on the Polish Music Charts.