Sept. 15, birthdays for Josh Charles, Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones

September 15, 2014 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Director Oliver Stone in a 2000 file photo. AP Photo/Mitch Jacobson, file

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Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 258th day of the year.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1908, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Dr. P. Allen Morton Was Really a Suicide.” The article focused on a Brooklyn dentist’s death. “It became known to-day that the death of Dr. D. Allen Morton, a prominent Brooklyn dentist, which occurred at Jay, N.Y., on Monday, Aug. 31, was not the result of natural causes, and that the dentist had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include “Brothers & Sisters” actor Dave Annable, who was born in 1979; “The Good Wife” actor Josh Charles, who was born in 1971; comedian Norm Crosby, who was born in 1927; “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Inception” actor Tom Hardy, who was born in 1977; second son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Prince Harry, who was born in 1984; Oscar Award-winning actor for “The Fugitive” Tommy Lee Jones, who was born in 1946; U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who was born in 1959; former football player Daniel Constantine Marino Jr., who was born in 1961; “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” actress Carmen Maura, who was born in 1945; soprano and opera singer Jessye Norman, who was born in 1945; Hall of Fame baseball player Gaylord Jackson Perry, who was born in 1938; New York City-born “House of Lies” actor Ben Schwartz, who was born in 1981; and New York City-born “Wall Street” director Oliver Stone, who was born in 1946.

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THE LEHMAN BROTHERS banking giant collapsed on this day in 2008. Their debt totaled more than $600 billion, when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company’s bankruptcy was by far the largest in U.S. history, and its collapse caused a ripple effect throughout the global financial system.

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LGBT CENTER AWARENESS Day is today. This day is nationally recognized and focuses on awareness around the work of LBGT community centers everywhere, which serves more than 40,000 people weekly.

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“HAPPINESS: 10 Years of n + 1” will be released at BookCourt tonight at 7 p.m. “Happiness” was selected by the editors of n + 1 magazine. The book commemorates the magazine’s 10th anniversary, and the event at BookCourt will feature a release party, reading, audience Q&A and book signing.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.