This Week's Birthdays - Week of September 19

September 19, 1964 – Trisha Yearwood, American singer.

September 20, 1878 – Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)

September 21, 1930 – Robert “Bob” Stokoe, English footballer and manager.

September 22, 1891 – Hans Albers, a German actor and singer.

September 23, 1961 – William Cameron “Willie” McCool, United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the Space Shuttle pilot of Columbia mission STS-107.

September 24, 1936 – James Maury “Jim” Henson, American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets.

September 25, 1897 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)