Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy.

6 September 1888

Born on the same birth day (6 September): Brigid Berlin • Frances Wright • Gordon Birtwistle • Jock Wallace Jr. • José Sócrates • Justin Whalin • Roger Knight • Susumu Tonegawa • Young Tonumaipea

Born in the same month (September 1888): Frans Eemil Sillanpää • Grey Owl • Ida McNeil • Israel Abramofsky • J. Frank Dobie • James Waddell Alexander II • Maurice Chevalier • Oskar Schlemmer • Porter Hall • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan • Toni Wolff • W. O. Bentley