Today is Monday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2016. There are 110 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Ian Holm is 85. Former representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, is 77. Actress Linda Gray is 76. Singer Maria Muldaur is 74. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 65. Original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood is 64. Rock drummer Neil Peart is 64. Actor Peter Scolari is 61. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is 60. Actress Rachel Ward is 59. Rock singer-pianist Ben Folds is 50. Comedian Louis C.K. is 49. Country singer Jennifer Nettles is 42. Basketball player Yao Ming is 36. Singer-actress Jennifer Hudson is 35.

In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett secretly married Robert Browning in London.

In 1953, Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed questions about his Roman Catholic faith, saying, ‘‘I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.’’

In 1977, South African black student leader Steve Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

In 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win an election as she claimed victory in the New York Democratic Senate primary.

Last year, Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran antiwar campaigner known for his unapologetically socialist views, won a landslide victory to lead Britain’s opposition Labor Party in one of the country’s biggest political shake-ups in decades.