September 3
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[edit] Births
- 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
- 1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (d. 1824)
- 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter
- 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
- 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (d. 1951)
- 1883 - Harold DeForest Arnold, telephone pioneer
- 1887 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973)
- 1900 - Maurice Dobb, economist (d. 1976)
- 1900 - Urho Kekkonen, eighth President of Finland (d. 1986)
- 1902 - Mantan Moreland, actor (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Loren Eiseley, anthropologist
- 1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician
- 1910 - Kitty Carlisle, actress, television personality
- 1913 - Alan Ladd, actor (d. 1964)
- 1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress
- 1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
- 1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist
- 1926 - Anne Jackson, actress
- 1927 - Hugh Sidey, American magazine editor
- 1929 - Irene Papas, actress
- 1930 - Cherry Wilder, author
- 1933 - Tompall Glaser, country music singer
- 1938 - Caryl Churchill, playwright
- 1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Eileen Brennan, actress
- 1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
- 1942 - Al Jardine, rock and roll musician (the Beach Boys)
- 1943 - Valerie Perrine, American actress
- 1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway
- 1955 - Steve Jones, musician (Sex Pistols)
- 1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
- 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
- 1965 - Todd Lewis, guitarist and singer (Toadies and The Burden Brothers)
- 1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
- 1982 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
- 1986 - Shaun White, snowboarder and skateboarder
[edit] Deaths
- 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
- 1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper
- 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author
- 1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
- 1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet
- 1914 - Albéric Magnard, composer
- 1948 - Edvard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia
- 1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
- 1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author
- 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician and songwriter
- 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary
- 1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
- 1974 - Harry Partch, composer
- 1980 - Duncan Renaldo, actor
- 1991 - Frank Capra, American film director
- 1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
- 2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic
- 2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress
- 2003 - Paul Hill, anti-abortion murderer
- 2003 - Rudolf Leiding, German car designer and execut==Events==
[edit] Events
- 1939 - World War II starts.
