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September 19, 1936

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Notable Births

1936Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (died 2012)[†]

Martin Joseph Fay was an Irish fiddler and bones player, and a former member of The Chieftains.

1936Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)[†]

Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 and 1969. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1956 to 1973, was spent in the minor leagues. He only played three games in the finals in 1967 for Toronto, but earned the right to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup. He died the day before his 78th birthday, on September 18, 2014.

Al Oerter

1936Al Oerter, American discus thrower (died 2007)[†]

Alfred Oerter Jr. was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Oerter is an inductee of the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Notable Deaths

Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande

1936Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1860)[†]

Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries mostly through oral traditions. During those earlier times, the art had undergone several changes, rendering the raga grammar documented in scant old outdated texts.

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