September 5, 1897

“It has happened more than once that a composition has come to me, ready-made as it were, between the demands of other work.” Amy Beach

Amy Beach American composer and pianist is born.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.

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September 30, 1920

Eileen Chang 張愛玲 Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter was born.

Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica is born

Erika James became the first black dean of Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

María Félix Mexican Film Actress is born.

Hattie McDaniel American Actress becomes first black person to win an Oscar.

Tulsi Gabbard U.S. Representative and first Hindu member of Congress is born.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."