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Masatoshi Koshiba
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Masatoshi Koshiba (born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi) is a Japanese physicist. He jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. Koshiba's award-winning work centred on neutrinos, subatomic particles that had long perplexed scientists. Since the 1920s it had been suspected that t...
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David Keith McCallum
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David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and for his curre...
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Cynthia Martin
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Cynthia Martin (aka Cindy Martin) is a comic book artist best known for her work on the Marvel Comics Star Wars title during its waning years in the mid-1980s. She was one of the few women working in mainstream American comics during that time. Read more
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Charles Lacy Veach (1944 - 1995)
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Charles Lacy Veach (September 18, 1944 - October 3, 1995) was a USAF fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. Read more
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Viktor Hambardzumyan (1908 - 1996)
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Viktor Hambardzumyan (September 18 [O.S. September 5] 1908 - August 12, 1996) was a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and gal...
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Karl Dragutin Rakos (1925-2011)
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Title: Karl Rakos - Obituary Authors: Andrew P. Odell Professor Dr. Karl Dragutin Rakos passed away on October 31, 2011 one day before his 86th birthday. With that the Vienna astronomical community lost a valued researcher, university teacher and co-founder of modern astrophysical research at t...
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Edwin Mattison McMillan (1907 - 1991)
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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 - September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951. Read more
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanic and first Black person in space. Tamayo, along with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Rom...
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Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752 - 1833)
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Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 - 10 January 1833) was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. The Moon crater Legendre is named after him. Read more
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819 - 1868)
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 - 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. Read more
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (1932 - 2002)
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (September 18, 1932, Tomsk - October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed t...
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William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench (1911 - 1995)
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William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden (18 September 1911 - 18 May 1995) was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility. Read more
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Clement Lindley Wragge (1852 - 1922)
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Clement Lindley Wragge (18 September 1852 - 10 December 1922), was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, but moved to Oakamoor, Staffordshire as a child. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological So...
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John Creasey (1908 - 1973)
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John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 - 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer. Read more
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Thomas Patten Stafford
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Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is a retired American Air Force Lieutenant general and former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard two Gemini space flights; and in 1969 was the commander of Apollo 10, the second manned mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a lunar module there. Rea...
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