On This Day — September 3
4020 noted people were born and 1853 died on September 3 in our archive, including Adolf Fick, James Joseph Sylvester and James P. Kennett.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 3
Adolf Fick
1829 – 1901
James Joseph Sylvester
1814 – 1897
James P. Kennett
b. 1940
Luis Falcón
b. 1970
Nevil Story Maskelyne
1823 – 1911
Andrew Wakefield
b. 1956
Armin Stromberg
1910 – 2004
Benoît Potier
b. 1957
Bruno Pittermann
1905 – 1983
Carl David Anderson
1905 – 1991
Carl Størmer
1874 – 1957
Charles Russell Clason
1890 – 1985
Dagmar Schipanski
1943 – 2022
Daniella Tilbury
b. 1967
David De Roure
b. 1962
Fernando de Trazegnies
b. 1935
Francis Crawford Burkitt
1864 – 1935
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1899 – 1985
Fritz Pregl
1869 – 1930
George Eulas Foster
1847 – 1931
Hamadoun Touré
b. 1953
Inese Vaidere
b. 1952
Jean Jaurès
1859 – 1914
Jouko Väänänen
b. 1950
Kjell Magne Bondevik
b. 1947
Lev Pontryagin
1908 – 1988
Loren Eiseley
1907 – 1977
Mario Draghi
b. 1947
Nikolai Denkov
b. 1962
Pietro Perona
b. 1961
Ralph Copeland
1837 – 1905
Robert Truax
1917 – 2010
Roger Grand
1874 – 1962
S. H. Foulkes
1898 – 1976
Seiko Noda
b. 1960
Solomon Lefschetz
1884 – 1972
Sylvester Sembratovych
1836 – 1898
Vladimir Ryzhkov
b. 1966
Volker Kauder
b. 1949
Ales Adamovich
1927 – 1994
Alexander Campbell Fraser
1819 – 1914
Alexander Kazhdan
1922 – 1997
Alois Stöger
b. 1960
Alphonse Munchen
1850 – 1917
Andrey Terekhov
1949 – 2025
Ann Jones
b. 1937
Ari Helenius
b. 1944
Arthur Pycroft
1875 – 1971
Asunción Gómez Pérez
b. 1967
Bariza Khiari
b. 1946
Bernard Ruiz-Picasso
b. 1959
Brajendra Nath Seal
1864 – 1938
Chalmers Hadley
1872 – 1958
Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
b. 1931
Charles Alan Wright
1927 – 2000
Charles Lemon
1784 – 1868
Constantin Popescu
1928 – 2018
Corry Tendeloo
1897 – 1956
Daniel Chan
b. 1975
Daron Acemoğlu
b. 1967
David L. Bazelon
1909 – 1993
David M. Brugge
1927 – 2013
Debraj Ray
b. 1957
Dixy Lee Ray
1914 – 1994
Doron Aurbach
b. 1952
Edward P. Cliff
1909 – 1987
Elizaveta Karamihailova
1897 – 1968
Emory Speer
1848 – 1918
Erika Tatiana Camacho
b. 1974
Eugene Sawyer
1934 – 2008
Eugène de Beauharnais
1781 – 1824
Ferdinand Porsche
1875 – 1951
Folkert de Roos
1920 – 2000
Franz Jachym
1910 – 1984
Franz Krüger
1797 – 1857
Gaston Thorn
1928 – 2007
Geoffroy Lejeune
b. 1988
George Chase
1886 – 1971
Gerd Gigerenzer
b. 1947
Glenn Loury
b. 1948
Grace Poe
b. 1968
Gregorio Rosa Chávez
b. 1942
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
1823 – 1921
Harold Hartley
1878 – 1972
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
1780 – 1850
Helge Backlund
1878 – 1958
Helēna Demakova
b. 1959
Henry Bellmon
1921 – 2009
Henryk Smolarz
b. 1969
Homer Jones
1893 – 1970
Hugo Hickmann
1877 – 1955
Ian Malcolm
1868 – 1944
Ion Druță
1928 – 2023
Izabela Leszczyna
b. 1962
J. O. Söderhjelm
1898 – 1985
Jaan Rannap
1931 – 2023
Jacek Purchla
b. 1954
Jacq Firmin Vogelaar
1944 – 2013
Jahor Martsinovič
b. 1988
Janusz Radziwiłł
1880 – 1967
Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle
1766 – 1855
John A. Quinn
1932 – 2016
John Olver
1936 – 2023
Joseph Gottfried Mikan
1743 – 1814
Joseph-Honoré Ricard
1880 – 1948
Josip Pečarić
b. 1948
Karl Wilhelm Fricke
b. 1929
Karlo Nograles
b. 1976
Keith Wilson
1900 – 1987
Kevin Starr
1940 – 2017
Knut Nystedt
1915 – 2014
Konstantin Rokossovsky
1889 – 1968
Krishna Shenoy
1968 – 2023
La Vern E. Weber
1923 – 1999
Laurence Curtis
1893 – 1989
Levy Mwanawasa
1948 – 2008
Lothar Bolz
1903 – 1986
Louis Dausset
1866 – 1940
Ludwig Gies
1887 – 1966
Lyudmila Zharkova
b. 1955
Matthea Harvey
b. 1973
Matthew Black
1908 – 1994
Matthew Offord
b. 1969
Maurice Papon
1910 – 2007
Meryl Swanson
b. 1970
Michael Hui
b. 1942
Mihai Cimpoi
b. 1942
Milan Balabán
1929 – 2019
Miloje Vasić
1869 – 1956
Mykhailo Maksymovych
1804 – 1873
Nam-Gyu Park
b. 1960
Nao Bustamante
b. 1969
Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea
b. 1976
Negasso Gidada
1943 – 2019
Nereu Ramos
1888 – 1958
Nikolaus Schneider
b. 1947
Paula T. Hammond
b. 1963
Peng Yigang
1932 – 2022
Peter Goddard
b. 1945
Peter Hamilton Bailey
1927 – 2021
Philip J. Pauly
1950 – 2008
Philippe Augier
b. 1949
Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
1810 – 1842
Péter Niedermüller
b. 1952
Qi Lu
b. 1961
Rachmat Gobel
1962 – 2026
Rensuke Isogai
1886 – 1967
Richard MacDonnell
1814 – 1881
Robert Foster
1898 – 1973
Robert Hunter
1823 – 1897
Robert J. Gordon
b. 1940
Robert Thurston Dart
1921 – 1971
Robert Wayne Allard
1919 – 2003
Ryōji Noyori
b. 1938
Saburo Ienaga
1913 – 2002
Samir Amin
1931 – 2018
Serhii Kondratevskyi
1965 – 2023
Sherwood C. Spring
b. 1944
Shomari Figures
b. 1985
Stanislav Smirnov
b. 1970
Stanisław Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz
1731 – 1826
T. Michael Moseley
b. 1949
Temur Iakobashvili
b. 1967
Toshihiro Kennoki
1901 – 1992
Urho Kekkonen
1900 – 1986
Vladimir Popov
b. 1946
Vladimír Čermák
1929 – 2004
Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria
1876 – 1951
Włodzimierz Jastrzębski
1939 – 2024
Xavier Darasse
1934 – 1992
Yang Hung-duen
b. 1956
Yury Kuznetsov
b. 1946
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
1936 – 2019
Zofia Praussowa
1878 – 1945
İldar Ğilmetdinef
b. 1962
Abraham Trembley
1710 – 1784
Adam Stanisław Grabowski
1698 – 1766
Akeem Scott
b. 1983
Alan Bristow
1923 – 2009
Alan Ladd
1913 – 1964
Alba Vergés i Bosch
b. 1978
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
1905 – 1971
Alejandro Jiliberto Zepeda
1929 – 2007
Aleksandr Kots
b. 1978
Alexa Meade
b. 1986
Alfred Bessell-Browne
1877 – 1947
Alfred Delacour
1817 – 1883
Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma
1706 – 1767
Alphonse de Gisors
1796 – 1866
Alverna Bennett
1918 – 2007
Ambrose Heal
1872 – 1959
Amos Anderson
1878 – 1961
Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler
b. 1961
Andrea Fischer
b. 1973
Andrea Álvarez Marín
b. 1986
Andrew Brewin
1907 – 1983
Andrew Jennings
1943 – 2022
Antoine Alexis Perier de Salvert
1691 – 1757
Anton Gindely
1829 – 1892
Antti Räisänen
b. 1950
… and 3,820 more
Died on September 3
Antti Tulenheimo
1879 – 1952
Carme Junyent
1955 – 2023
Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk
1847 – 1908
Derek J. de Solla Price
1922 – 1983
Edvard Beneš
1884 – 1948
Edvard Westermarck
1862 – 1939
Guy Rocher
1924 – 2025
Ivan Maisky
1884 – 1975
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
1957 – 2016
John McLoughlin
1784 – 1857
John P. White
1937 – 2017
Mahmoud Hessabi
1903 – 1992
Max Bodenstein
1871 – 1942
Rensis Likert
1903 – 1981
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan
1871 – 1940
Samuel Davenport
1818 – 1906
Serge Voronoff
1866 – 1951
Stephen Gaukroger
1950 – 2023
Adolphe Thiers
1797 – 1877
Alonso Tostado
1400 – 1455
Alphonsus J. Donlon
1867 – 1923
Amando de Miguel
1937 – 2023
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
1816 – 1872
Andrzej Maria Deskur
1924 – 2011
André Dumortier
1910 – 2004
André Stil
1921 – 2004
Arthur Upham Pope
1881 – 1969
Basil Willey
1897 – 1978
Carl Emil Bardenfleth
1807 – 1857
Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
1920 – 1982
Chen Mengjia
1911 – 1966
Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram
1873 – 1960
Curt John Ducasse
1881 – 1969
César-François Cassini de Thury
1714 – 1784
Dan Eley
1914 – 2015
Edward Coke
1552 – 1634
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Sr.
1865 – 1925
Edward Rudge
1763 – 1846
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
1806 – 1849
Eva Knardahl
1927 – 2006
Eva Selin Lindgren
1936 – 2011
Gaston Palewski
1901 – 1984
Genova Thaon di Revel
1817 – 1910
Georg Meiring
1939 – 2024
Georgii Khetagurov
1903 – 1975
Hassan Firouzabadi
1951 – 2021
Heinrich Scheuch
1864 – 1946
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle
1694 – 1758
Hinrich Lichtenstein
1780 – 1857
Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná
1801 – 1856
Isidore Pils
1813 – 1875
Jacob Katzenstein
1864 – 1921
James C. Hopkins
1819 – 1877
Jan Kanty Steczkowski
1862 – 1929
Johann von Lutz
1826 – 1890
Johannes Friedrich
1948 – 2025
John Ashbery
1927 – 2017
John Augustine Collins
1899 – 1989
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
1840 – 1929
John Forrest
1847 – 1918
Joseph Marx
1882 – 1964
Josiah P. Cooke
1827 – 1894
José Gregori
1930 – 2023
José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez
1919 – 2019
Karl von Abel
1788 – 1859
Lance Adams-Schneider
1919 – 1995
Leander Schnerr
1836 – 1920
Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville
1827 – 1908
Lorenzo D. Lewelling
1846 – 1900
Lucie Randoin
1885 – 1960
M. S. Sanjeevi Rao
1929 – 2014
Martin Heinrich Rathke
1793 – 1860
Moriz Rosenthal
1862 – 1946
Mortimer Taube
1910 – 1965
Morton Feldman
1926 – 1987
Mungo William MacCallum
1854 – 1942
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kots
1889 – 1963
Norman Kwong
1929 – 2016
Piero Sraffa
1898 – 1983
Ralph Lyford
1882 – 1927
Ray Davis
1915 – 2003
Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara
1827 – 1902
Robert Howard
1626 – 1698
Romuald Gutt
1888 – 1974
Rudolf Leiding
1914 – 2003
Seweryn Potocki
1762 – 1829
Shinobu Orikuchi
1887 – 1953
Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor
1878 – 1960
Steve Fossett
1944 – 2007
Susan Dowdell Myrick
1893 – 1978
Sven Ludvig Lovén
1809 – 1895
Victor Krasin
1929 – 2017
Vittorino Veronese
1910 – 1986
Vladimir Polukhin
1932 – 2009
Wilbur Wade Card
1873 – 1948
Wilhelm Winkler
1884 – 1984
William Rehnquist
1924 – 2005
Albert Hofstede
1940 – 2016
Alexander Nadiradze
1914 – 1987
Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
1885 – 1938
Alexandru Borza
1887 – 1971
Alexis I. du Pont Bayard
1918 – 1985
Alfred Agache
1843 – 1915
Alércio Dias
1942 – 2020
Andrew Crockett
1943 – 2012
Antoine Richepanse
1770 – 1802
Antônio de Barros Carvalho
1899 – 1966
Ashesh Prosad Mitra
1927 – 2007
Attilio Maseri
1935 – 2021
Augustin Saint-Hilaire
1779 – 1853
Aurora Bertrana
1892 – 1974
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
1764 – 1820
Charles Grandison Rose III
1939 – 2012
Charles-Robert Ageron
1923 – 2008
Christian Jensen
1823 – 1884
Christine D'haen
1923 – 2009
Clarence Edwards Case
1877 – 1961
Claudius Salmasius
1588 – 1653
Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
1801 – 1869
Cyril Smith
1928 – 2010
Cécile Sorel
1873 – 1966
César Bengzon
1896 – 1992
Daniel Elmen
1885 – 1932
Dave Zeller
1939 – 2020
David Cohen
1882 – 1967
Deborah Wolfe
1916 – 2004
E. E. Cummings
1894 – 1962
Edna Paisano
1948 – 2014
Edward Honor, Sr.
1933 – 2008
Edward Parke Custis Lewis
1837 – 1892
Edward T. Taylor
1858 – 1941
Edward Talbot Thackeray
1836 – 1927
Ekkehard Schall
1930 – 2005
Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress
1434 – 1467
Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel
1909 – 1990
Eugene Pallette
1889 – 1954
Evelyn B. Man
1904 – 1992
Fabio Mussi
1948 – 2026
Fausto Gullo
1887 – 1974
Ferit Melen
1906 – 1988
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun
1930 – 2024
Frank Capra
1897 – 1991
Frank Cervell
1907 – 1970
Frank G. Farrington
1872 – 1933
Franz Deym
1838 – 1903
Franz Loogen
1919 – 2010
Franz Schrönghamer-Heimdal
1881 – 1962
François Guiguet
1860 – 1937
François-Louis Crosnier
1792 – 1867
Frederic McGrand
1895 – 1988
Friedrich Alpers
1901 – 1944
Gaetano Scirea
1953 – 1989
George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry
1722 – 1809
George Szatmári
1457 – 1524
George Wurtz Hughes
1806 – 1870
Giffard Le Quesne Martel
1889 – 1958
Gisbert Flüggen
1811 – 1859
Gregory Krumbock
1960 – 2024
Gustav Adolf Closs
1864 – 1938
Hans Georg Calmeyer
1903 – 1972
Harry Calvert
1763 – 1826
Heinrich Koebner
1838 – 1904
Heinrich Oidtmann
1838 – 1890
Henri Lavedan
1859 – 1940
Henry Evans (RFC officer)
1879 – 1916
Homer E. Capehart
1897 – 1979
Horace King, Baron Maybray-King
1901 – 1986
Igor Spassky
1926 – 2024
Ivo Pilar
1874 – 1933
Jack Simmons
1915 – 2000
Jacqueline Risset
1936 – 2014
Jacques-Pierre Orillard de Villemanzy
1751 – 1830
James A. Byrne
1906 – 1980
James Harrison
1816 – 1893
James M. Sellers
1895 – 1990
James S. T. Stranahan
1808 – 1898
James Watson Leonard
1853 – 1909
Janet Doub Erickson
1924 – 2021
Jean Richardot
1540 – 1609
Jean-Auguste Stecher
1820 – 1909
Jeff German
1953 – 2022
Jenő Heltai
1871 – 1957
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II
1830 – 1893
Joanikije II
John Ballard Rendall
1847 – 1924
John F. Thornell Jr
1921 – 1998
John Lanneau McMillan
1898 – 1979
John Rennie the Younger
1794 – 1874
John Watts Jr.
1749 – 1836
Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer
1904 – 1993
Joseph DeJarnette
1866 – 1957
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
1911 – 1992
Josephine Silone Yates
1859 – 1912
Juan José Castro
1895 – 1968
Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo
1903 – 1979
Jules Gallay
1822 – 1897
Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh
1919 – 1996
Julius Weizsäcker
1828 – 1889
Julius von Pflug
1499 – 1564
K. Kushalappa Gowda
1931 – 2022
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