Today is Thursday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2025 with 118 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include writer/politician Francois Rene de Chateaubriand in 1768; U.S. first lady Sarah Polk in 1803; engineer/inventor Lewis Latimer in 1848; musician Darius Milhaud in 1892; musician Jan Savitt in 1907; writer Richard Wright in 1908;