4 September

Constantijn Huygens
4 September 1596 – 28 March 1687
Dutch composer and poet of the Dutch Golden Age.

Juan Cabanilles
4 September 1644 – 29 April 1712
Renowned Spanish composer and organist.

Ninomiya Sontoku
4 September 1787 – 17 November 1856
Japanese agricultural reformer, whose work improved the results peasants farming.

Donald McKay
4 September 1810 – 20 September 1880
Canadian naval architect who designed the fastest clippers ever built. They were the fast cargo sailing ships of the late 19th. century.

Anton Bruckner
4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896
Austrian composer of symphonies.

Martin Wiberg
4 September 1826 – 29 December 1905
Swedish. In 1875 he invented a devise, based on Babbage’s difference engine, that could compute and print logarithmic tables. Now considered a computer pioneer. His invention can be seen at the Tekniska museet, Stockholm.

Daniel Burnham
4 September 1846 – 1 June 1912
American architect, designed the Union Station in the national capital, Washington.

Darius Milhaud
4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974
French composer, regarded as one of the 20th. centuries prolific composers.

William Lyons
4 September 1901 – 8 February 1985
Co-founder of Jaguar cars.

Dawn Fraser
4 September 1937
Australian Olympic swimmer, who won the 100m. freestyle in three consecutive Olympic Games (1956, 1960 & 1964).

Today’s Quote
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
… Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1975 – Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell

Today’s events
4 September 1884 – Penal transportation of convicts to New South Wales (Australia) ended by England.
4 September 1888 – ‘Kodak’ registered as a trade mark by George Eastman.
4 September 1893 – The story of ‘Peter Rabbit’ first told by Beatrix Potter to a friend in a letter.
4 September 1956 – IBM introduces a magnetic data storage system to their mainframe computers.
4 September 1964 – The Firth of Forth suspension road bridge (near Edinburgh) opens.
4 September 1998 – Sergey Brin and Larry Page establish Google.