VirtualGlobetrotting

This Week’s Birthdays – Week of September 3

September 3, 1929 – James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, Jr., a former crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang based in Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States.

Whitey Bulger's Hide-Out

September 4, 1596 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (d. 1687)

Hofwijck, Huygens museum

September 5, 1846 – Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel – an American distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey distillery.

Jack Daniel statue

September 6, 1757 – Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.

Marquis de La Fayette statue

September 7, 1818 – Vicente Martinez Ybor, a Spanish American industrialist and cigar manufacturer, best known for founding the cigar-manufacturing town of Ybor City near Tampa, Florida in 1886.

Vicente Martinez-Ybor statue

September 8, 1841 – Antonín Leopold Dvořák, a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.

Statue of Antonin Dvorak

September 9, 1890 – Harland David “Colonel” Sanders, an American restaurateur who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain.

Colonel Sanders