Born in 1963 – A. C. Green, American basketball player.

Above: Green playing for the Oregon State Beavers in 1982.

Born in 1935 – Julie Andrews, English actress and singer.

Above: Andrews in The Sound of Music.

Born in 1905 – Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Deborah Kerr in the  Powell and Pressburger film, Black Narcissus.

Born in 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter.

Above: Still from Antonioni’s film, Blow Up.

Born in 1950 – John Sayles, American actor, director, and screenwriter.

Above: Chris Cooper in Sayles’ 1987 film, Matewan.

On Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Dr. Mohammad Najibullah.

Above: The execution of Najibullah.

Born in 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter.

“Silence is so accurate.”

Released in 1991: Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Born in 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter and author.

Video: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform I Need You.

Born in 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet.