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Magicpedia:Selected anniversaries/September
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_1
- 1897 - Herbert Milton was born in England,
- 1901 - Slydini was born.
- 1946 - Texas Association of Magicians was official formed.
- 1947 - Martin Lewis was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_2
- 1940 - Carl Fleming died.
- 1951 - Ellis Stanyon died.
- 1982 - Dai Vernon Revelations began taping.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_3
- 1919 - Jeffery Atkins was born.
- 1927 - Brother John Hamman and Alan Greenberg were born.
- 1998 - Close-up magician Michael Skinner dies
- 2014 - Lubor Fiedler died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_4
- 1893 - David Lustig was born.
- 1896 - John Braun was born.
- 1897 - Leo Schmitt was born.
- 1906 - Francis White was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_5
- 1914 - Ken Griffin was born.
- 1921 - Alton Sharpe was born.
- 1953 - Joe Berg opened a new Magic Studio in California.
- 1982 - Werner F. Dornfield dies
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_6
- 1898 - Leslie Guest was born.
- 1901 - Karl Germain performed at Opera House, Canton, Illinois.
- 1940 - Jim Cellini was born.
- 1951 - The congress of the FISM was in Paris, France, convened by Dr. Jules Dhotel.
- 1994 - Gene Gordon dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_7
- 1930 - Tony Raven was born Bob Lynn.
- 1969 - Phoa Yan Tiong appeared at the Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1998 - Grand Illusions: The Story Of Magic, a Canadian television series, started airing.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_8
- 1857 - Signor Barnello, known as The Human Volcano, is born.
- 1992 - John Henry Grossman, co-founder of Magic Collectors Association passes away.
- 2001 - End of Melinda's Show at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_9
- 1889 - Burling Hull was born.
- 1906 - Nivelli was born.
- 1951 - The Portland Assembly of the Magigals held their first meeting in the Library of the Holy Cross Academy.
- 1955 - Rufus Steele dies.
- 1958 - Amazing Johnathan was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_10
- 1892 - De Vega born.
- 1927 - Frank Everhart born.
- 1944 - Steve Dusheck born.
- 1992 - 4th festival of the Society of World Deaf Magicians in Kiev, Ukraine.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_11
- 1898 - Dr. Raymond Beebe born.
- 1938 - T. Nelson Downs died.
- 1961 - De Yip Loo performed on the debut of Bozo’s Circus.
- 1991 - Dr. Ben Braude died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_12
- 1897 - Walter B. Gibson was born.
- 1938 - Wonderful party of Los Magicos at the home of Harold Lloyd.
- 1940 - Bob Read was born.
- 1996 - J. B. Bobo dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_13
- 1914 - Lin Searles, creator of the classic card plot called Cannibal Cards, was born.
- 1943 - Simon Aronson was born.
- 1946 - Academy Award nominated producer Frank Marshall was born in California.
- 1947 - Arthur Buckley's lectured at the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis under the sponsorship of Assembly No. 8 of the S.A.M..
- 1977 - Karl Fulves appeared on the Mike Douglas Show.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_14
- 1962 - William Lindsay Gresham passed away.
- 1978 - Edgar Benyon died.
- 1997 - David Blaine: Street Magic, a one-hour prime time special, aired.
- 2003 - Russ Barnhart passed away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_15
- 1936 - Tenkai started at the Los Angeles Orpheum.
- 1975 - Danny Dew wrote a letter to Bill Larsen which was published in the October 1975 issue of Genii.
- 2006 - Milt Larsen and Bill Larsen Jr. were honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_16
- 1883 - Percy Barrs is born in Lancashire, England.
- 1900 - Medjid Kan Rezvani is born in Isfahan, Iran.
- 1946 - Tony Binarelli is born in Rome, Italy.
- 1956 - David Copperfield is born, as David Seth Kotkin, in New Jersey, USA.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_17
- 1839 - Ira Erastus Davenport, one of the Davenport Brothers, was born.
- 1899 - Wilfrid Jonson was born.
- 1908 - Adrian Smith was born.
- 1929 - Salvano was born.
- 1948 - John Ritter was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_18
- 1843 - Charles De Vere was born.
- 1942 - Chuck Jones, creator of the Mismade Girl illusion, was born.
- 1984 - Lloyd Jones dies
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_19
- 1860 - Elmer P. Ransom is born.
- 1948 - Paul Rosini dies at the age of 46.
- 1970 - Doc Mahendra dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_20
- 1835 - Richard Potter dies.
- 1889 - Gordon Freeman is born.
- 1956 - Kuda Bux appeared on the The Tonight Show.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_21
- 1926 - Houdini performs his first public performance of his Water Torture Cell at the Circus Busch in Berlin.
- 1937 - Douglas Dexter dies.
- 1942 - Walter Cerretta Jeans dies.
- 1999 - Whitey Roberts dies.
- 2005 - Neal Elias dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_22
- 1855 - Chevalier Ernest Thorn was born.
- 1863 - David P. Abbott was born.
- 1929 - Owen Clark dies.
- 1936 - Art Metrano was born.
- 1945 - Grady Nicholson dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_23
- 1878 - Will Goldston is born.
- 1879 - Donald Holmes is born.
- 1881 - Guy Jarrett is born.
- 1928 - August Roterberg dies.
- 1990 - Ronald M. Boffenmyer dies.
- 2003 - Richard Buffum dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_24
- 1873 - William Kirsch is born.
- 1914 - Howard de Courcy is born.
- 1920 - Sargent dies.
- 1928 - René Lavand is born.
- 1954 - Dai Vernon wrote a letter to Gerald Kosky which can be seen in Genii 1989 May
- 1984 - Neil Hamilton dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_25
- 1868 - Edward Maro is born.
- 1876 - Zuard Odry de Pacscer is born.
- 1883 - Ed Dart is born.
- 1969 - Hal Sparks is born.
- 1987 - P. Howard Lyons passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_26
- 1897 - Frederick Bancroft dies.
- 1898 - John Giordmaine was born.
- 1905 - Alex Bowsher was born.
- 1944 - Sir Julian Cahn dies.
- 2003 - Jackie Flosso dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_27
- 1875 - A. B. Harrington was born.
- 1885 - Harry Blackstone Sr. was born.
- 1888 - H. A. Brauer was born.
- 1906 - Charles Joseph Carter was in Cleveland, Ohio for a week long show.
- 1922 - Carl Ballantine was born.
- 1961 - Suzanne was born.
- 1973 - George Karger dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_28
- 1899 - Joseph Simonette was born.
- 1901 - Ed Sullivan was born.
- 1914 - Lou Derman was born in New York.
- 1957 - Bill Frazee, who once toured with Carl Rosini, dies.
- 1991 - Tan Hock Chuan dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_29
- 1866 - W. W. Durbin was born.
- 1902 - Jasper Maskelyne, known as "The War Magician", was born.
- 1902 - Paul Rosini was born in Trieste Italy.
- 1916 - Ray-Mond was born.
- 1928 - Dave Campbell was born.
- 1949 - Miaco dies from injuries sustained in a street fight.
- 1950 - Devo passes away.
- 1968 - Frank Cole passes away.
- 1981 - Dr. Abraham Hurwitz, Peter Pan the Magic Man, passes away.
- 2001 - George Kirkendall passes away.
- 2004 - Joe Fenichel passes away.
- 2007 - MagicPedia (this site) was opened to the public.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_30
- 1923 - The movie "Haldane of the secret service" , starring and directed by Harry Houdini, was released.
- 1936 - André Kole was born.
- 1977 - David J. Lustig, adviser to Dunninger, dies.
- 1978 - Edgar Bergen passed away.