01 September: today's birthdays

• Clayton Alderfer - American psychologist
• ​António Lobo Antunes -  Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He wrote Elephant's Memory (Memória de Elefante)
• Adolphe Appia - Swiss architect and stage designer
• Pierre Étienne Bézier - French engineer and mathematician, the creator of the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces, now used in most computer graphics systems
• Blaise Cendrars - Pseudonym of Frédéric-Louis Sauser, Swiss-born French novelist and poet
• Alan Dershowitz - American lawyer, jurist and political commentator
• Annie Ernaux - French writer, born Annie Duchesne. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
• Vittorio Gassman - Italian actor and film director. He starred in The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) and Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro)
• William Stanley Jevons - English economist
• Bill Kaulitz - German singer
• Tom Kaulitz - German guitarist
• Emanuel Löwy - Austrian archaeologist
• Gaël Monfils - French professional tennis player
• Johann Pachelbel - German composer and organist
• Emanuel Schikaneder - German singer, actor and librettist
• Michel Serres - French philosopher and epistemologist
• Daniel Sturridge - English professional footballer born Daniel Andre Sturridge