September 3rd
Holidays and Festivals
National Day (Belize)
Independence Day (Qatar) * (see below)
Flag Day (Australia) * CLICK HERE
Foundation Day (301) by Saint Marinus (San Marino)
Memorial Day (Tunisia)
Armed Forces Day (Republic of China - Taiwan)
Merchant Navy Day (Canada)
Skyscraper Day
Feast of Pope Gregory I (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Marinus (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Remaclus (Roman Catholic).
* All Tomorrow's Parties New York Monticello, New York, USA September 3 - 5 (1of3) (2010)
* Independence Day (Qatar) celebrating independence from Great Britain in 1971
Fête de la Cardère Translation: Teasel Day (French Republican) The 17th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Orange Tundra
1 Shot Cream Soda
1 Shot Orange juice
1 Shot Kahlua (or coffee liqueur)
1 Shot Vodka
Wine of The Day
Reynolds Family Winery (2006) Reserve
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Stags Leap District
$95
Beer of The Day
Fluxus
Brewer - Allagash Brewing Co. Portland, ME
Style - Belgian/French-Style Ale
Joke of The Day
John Murphy hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!"
That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night"
She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?"
John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife."
"Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."
She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come."
Quote of The Day
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey - In celebration of Labor day (2012)
Whiskey Of The Day
Distiller: Bulleit Distilling Co. (Lawrenceburg, KY)
Age: 6 years
ABV: 45% (90 proof)
Price: $30 (750ml)
www.bulleitbourbon.com
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observations this Week
National Childhood Injury Prevention Week, First Week of September
International Enthusiasm Week, First Week of September
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India), First Week of September
National Waffle Week, First Week of September
Self-University Week, First Week of September
Suicide Prevention Week, First Week of September
Septemberfest, First Week of September
National Arbor Week, (South Africa) First Week of September * CLICK HERE
National Payroll Week First Work Week of September
Historical Events on September 3rd
(36 BC) In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
863 Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 30 Jews are massacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned at Westminster.
1260 The Mamluks (Palestine) defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army
1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland
1632 Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden
1650 Battle at Dunbar of the Third English Civil War, England vs Scotland
1651 Battle of Worcester of the Third English Civil War, English royalists under Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war by Oliver Cromwell.
1658 Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector
1666 The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1725 England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1752 US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14). People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 Cooch's Bridge Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1779 Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1783 The American Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1798 The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1802 William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
1803 English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1812 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre.
1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1838 Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1855 In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance, thus ending its neutrality during the American Civil War.
1864 Battle of Berryville, VA
1864 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1865 Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1874 The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1881 First US Mens Tennis, Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62)
1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1882 French, Vietnamese, Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1888 East Africa Company political & commercial rights
1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
1891 11th US Mens Tennis, Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart and the US Tennis Open (26 75 79 61 62)
1891 Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
1895 First pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
1903 Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup
1904 St Louis Olympics closes
1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans
1906 Yankees win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's, 2nd forfeit win
1908 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London
1911 31st US Mens Tennis, Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
1912 Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres
1912 World's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 British expeditionary army, general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1914 French troops vacate Reims
1914 William, Prince of Albania leaves the Albania after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1917 The first night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1917 German troops over run Riga Latvia
1917 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1918 38th US Mens Tennis, R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75)
1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1921 16th Davis Cup, USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1923 Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in NYC
1924 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1924 L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC
1925 1st international handball match held
1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1928 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit
1929 Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1932 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title
1932 Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50
1933 Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union Communism Peak (7495 m).
1934 Tunisia began its move for independence
1935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1935 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1936 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1939 Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland in World War II. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada, forming the Allies
1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939 Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win
1940 First showing of high definition color TV
1940 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record)
1940 Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1940 Neth government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London
1940 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1941 Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1941 KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1942 In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto during World War II.
1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
1944 58th US Womens Tennis, P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86)
1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz
1944 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
1944 Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
1944 French troops liberate Lyon
1944 Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force
1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 65th US Mens Tennis, Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62)
1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
1945 Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1947 Philadelphia A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0
1947 Yankees get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2
1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party
1949 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1950 "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
1951 The first long-running American television soap opera "Search for Tomorrow", airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1954 China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy
1954 Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
1954 Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1954 The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1954 The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
1955 KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
1957 Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ)
1957 KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1964 US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1965 Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins
1965 Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic
1965 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
1965 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
1965 Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif
1966 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
1966 Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman"
1967 Dagen H in Sweden, traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1967 Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1967 Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
1967 WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run
1970 After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
1970 Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
1970 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands
1971 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
1971 Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO
1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA
1973 Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
1974 NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires
1974 US & German DR establish diplomatic relations
1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1975 Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1976 The Viking 2 spacecraft soft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, returns photos.
1977 Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total
1977 Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV
1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1978 Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5)
1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad
1979 Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
1979 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7. Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns
1984 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
1984 Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
1984 Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1984 Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
1984 South Africa adopts constitution
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
1985 England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval
1985 NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
1986 Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London
1986 Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
1988 Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45
1989 "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs
1989 Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory
1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1990 9th no-hitter of 1990, Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1990 Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1990 Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
1990 White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
1992 Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
1994 Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1994 Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1995 Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
1995 Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
1995 NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
1995 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
1995 eBay founded.
1996 Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
1997 A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1999 87-automobile pile-up on Highway 401 freeway just east of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.
2004 Beslan school hostage crisis - Day 3, The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of approximately 344 people, more than half of which are children.
2012 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2012 New Zealand announces its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan
2012 Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
2013 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula
2013 Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
2015 Kentucky clerk in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples
2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia
Born on September 3rd
1034 Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1568 Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
1596 Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1600 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk
1608 Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military
1675 Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1764)
1703 Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, cardinal
1710 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1719 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1724 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1757 Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778 Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
1781 Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
1789 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
1803 Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer
1803 Prudence Crandall, founder (School for "young ladies of colour")
1810 Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1811 John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists) (d. 1886)
1820 George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1825 Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1891)
1825 William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1835 William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
1840 Jacob Fabricius, composer
1841 Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
1849 Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (Country of the Pointed Firs) (d. 1909)
1851 Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
1856 Louis Henri Sullivan, American architect, father of modern US architecture (d. 1924)
1856 Robert Stewart, South African cricketer (d. 1913)
1859 AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves)
1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1864 Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer
1865 Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
1866 Alain Locke, famous African
1869 Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
1875 Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (Porsche, Volkswagen) (d. 1951)
1882 Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
1887 Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1889 Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn)
1890 J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City PA, actress (Courage of Black Beauty)
1891 Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer
1893 Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer, choreography, teacher (Schepelingen)
1897 Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor (Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities)
1897 Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer
1897 Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1899 Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
1900 Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976)
1900 Percy Chapman, England cricketer (d. 1961)
1900 Urho K Kekkonen, President Finland (1956-81) (d. 1986)
1901 Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician, conductor (d. 1959)
1902 Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth)
1903 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
1905 Carl David Anderson, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate for physics 1936) (d. 1991)
1905 John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1972)
1905 Robert Ruthenfranz, composer
1907 Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (Animal Secrets) (d. 1977)
1908 Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
1910 Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1910 Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007)
1911 Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 Alan Ladd, American actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers) (d. 1964)
1914 Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
1914 Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
1915 Abel Ehrlich, composer
1915 Knut Nystedt, composer
1916 Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1916 Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman), Musician
1917 Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)
1917 Peter Winter, naval commander
1918 Helen Wagner, American actress (Nancy-As The World Turns)
1921 Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1921 Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1922 Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer
1923 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
1923 Terry Wilson, California, actor (Bill-Wagon Train)
1925 Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1925 Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1925 Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer
1926 Alison Lurie, American novelist (War Between the Tates)
1926 Anne Jackson, Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
1926 Bill Flemming, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1926 Irene Papas, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, Attila The Hun)
1926 Joe Kolter, (Rep-D-PA, 1983)
1926 John R(obert) Jones, American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War)
1928 Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission (d. 2007)
1929 Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
1930 Cherry Barbara Grimm (Lockett), New Zealand sci-fi author (Nearest Fire) (d. 2002)
1930 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1931 Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1931 Dick Motta, American basketball coach, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings)
1931 Mitzi Gaynor, Chicago IL, actress/vocalist (Les Girls, South Pacific)
1931 Rudolf Kelterborn, composer
1932 Eileen Brennan, American actress
1932 Richard Tyler, American actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1933 Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer
1933 Roland Kayn, composer
1933 Tompall Glaser, American singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1934 Freddie King, American musician, blues singer (Hideaway) (d. 1976)
1934 Xavier Darasse, composer
1935 Eileen Brennan, LA California, actress (Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin)
1935 Helmut Clasen, Canadian offroad racer (1st ISDT gold medal for CAN)
1935 Otto Ketting, trumpeter/composer (Passacaglia)
1936 John W Olver, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1936 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987)
1938 Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 Eileen Brennan, American actress
1938 Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
1940 Pauline Collins, English actress (Shirley Valentine)
1941 Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 Al Jardine, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 John Shrapnel, English actor
1943 Dave Eichelberger, Waco TX, PGA golfer (1971 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 Don Brewer, rocker
1943 Frank Lister, English footballer
1943 Michael D Barnes, (Rep-D-MD, 1979-86)
1943 Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid)
1943 Valerie Perrine, American actress
1944 Gary Leeds, Glendale Ca, rocker (Walker Brothers)
1944 Sherwood C "Woody" Spring, Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B)
1944 Valerie Perrine, Galveston Tx, actress (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
1945 George Biondo, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 Mike Harrison, keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1946 Peter Morris, historian of France
1947 Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1947 Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
1947 Michael Huffington, US oil millionaire (Rep-R-California, 1992-94)
1948 Donald Brewer, Flint Mich, rock drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Fotis Kouvelis, Greek lawyer and politician
1948 Levy Mwanawasa Zambian Politician (d. 2008)
1948 Minouche Janmaat-Abee, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 Ronald W Harris, Canton Oh, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1949 José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
1949 Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1950 Aaron Smith, rocker (Romeo Void)
1950 Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
1951 Denys Hobson, former South African cricketer
1953 Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1953 Khabib Munir, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3 backup)
1953 M H Habib, Syria, cosmonaut
1955 Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
1956 Hans-Georg Beyer, German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1956 Patrick McGeown, politician
1957 Earl Cureton, American basketball player
1957 Garth Ancier, American television executive
1959 Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1961 Brian Thomas Kamm, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (1994 Bell Canadian-6th)
1961 Greg Petersen, Iowa City IA, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Klondike-6th)
1961 Rene Gonzales, Austin TX, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1962 Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
1962 Dave Clark, Tupelo MS, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1963 Amber Lynn, American porn star
1963 Eric Plunk, Wilmington CA, pitcher (Oakland A's, NY Yankees, Indians)
1963 Mubarak Ghanim, UAE footballer
1964 Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1964 Ernest Givins, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 Glenn Joyner, Ferntree Gully VIC, Australasia golfer
1964 Holt McCallany, American actor
1964 Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
1964 Nigel Rhodes, English actor and musician
1964 Spike Feresten, American television writer
1964 Toshiyuki Sakai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1965 Charlie Sheen (Carlos Estavez), American actorr (Wall St, Platoon)
1965 Maurizio Mansi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 Todd Lewis, musician (Toadies)
1966 Bennie Blades, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1966 Pat Eilers, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1966 Shawn Daniels, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
1967 Chris Gatling, American basketball player, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1967 Luis Gonzalez, American Baseball Player, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 David Pichler, Butler Pa, diver (Olympics-6th-96)
1968 Dawn Allinger, Salt Lake City UT, team handball back court (Oly-1996)
1968 Matt Hamon, SF California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 Robert Bailey, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Eric Robinson, American comedian
1969 John Fugelsang, American actor
1969 Keith Traylor, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1969 Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler, and valet (d. 2004)
1969 Noah Baumbach, Brooklyn, New York, writer, director and independent film maker (The Squid and the Whale)
1970 Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1970 George Lynch, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
1970 Uzooma Okeke, CFL guard (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 Chabeli Iglesias, Spanish journalist, daughter of Julio Iglesias
1971 Glen Housman, Rockhampton QLD Aust, swimmer (Olympics-silv-92, 96)
1971 Tonja Marie Christensen, Salt Lake City Utah, playmate (Nov, 1991)
1971 Trevor St. John, American actor
1972 Antonius Bonner, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Florida)
1972 Natalia Estrada, Spanish model and actress
1972 Roland Ramoser, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1972 Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
1973 Brian Thure, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1973 Chen Hsiao-Fen, Miss Universe-Taiwan ROC (1996)
1973 Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 Jennifer Paige, American singer/songwriter
1973 Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star
1973 Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
1973 Zita Urbonaite, Lithuanian road cyclist (d. 2008)
1974 Clare Kramer, American actress
1974 Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer
1974 Rebecca Bailey, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1974 Sergei Yerkovich, hockey defenseman (Team Belarus 1998)
1975 Ava Lovell, Miss Universe-Belize (1996)
1975 Cristobal Huet, French hockey player, goalie (Team France 1998)
1976 Ashley Jones, American actress
1976 Jevon Kearse, American football player
1976 Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1977 Nate Robertson, American baseball player
1977 Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1977 Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
1977 Tami Tyler, Santa Clara California, dance skater (& Jonathan Nichols)
1978 John Curtis, English footballer
1978 Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
1978 Nick Wechsler, American actor
1978 Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
1978 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
1979 Tiffany Chapman, English actress
1979 Tomo Milicevic, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
1980 Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
1980 Jennie Finch, American softball player
1980 The B.G., American rapper
1981 Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1982 Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1983 Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
1983 Marcus McCauley, American football player
1983 Nicky Hunt, English footballer
1983 Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 Garrett Hedlund, American actor
1985 Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1985 Scott Carson, English footballer
1986 Alexa Meade, American artist
1986 Shaun White, American snowboarder (Olympic gold 2006, 2010)
1987 Chris Fountain, English actor
1993 Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
Died on September 3rd
863 Umar al-Aqta, Emir of Melitene
1189 Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1205 Petrus van Poitiers, French theologist (Sententiarum libri V)
1402 Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke-Tyrant of Milan (1395-1402) (b. 1351)
1420 Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 Edward Coke, English Chief Justice and Member of Parliament (b. 1552)
1642 Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte
1653 Claudius Salmasius (Claude Saumaise), French linguistic, classical scholar (b. 1588)
1655 Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56
1658 Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58), Lord Protector (b. 1599)
1662 William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1667 Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, architect
1675 Pieter Boel, Flemish painter/etcher
1708 Christian Liebe, composer
1720 Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
1722 Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1739 George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity)
1766 Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1790 Thomas Norris, composer
1808 John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1811 Ignaz Franzl, composer
1843 Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra
1849 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician
1857 John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1857 M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer
1860 Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1871 Vaclav Horak, composer
1876 Felix, cricketer (legendary All-England player)
1877 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77)
1883 Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
1886 William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1890 Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo)
1890 Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1908 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies)
1914 Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
1914 Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II
1914 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer
1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1935 Johannes Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
1936 Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
1938 Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist
1940 Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna)
1944 Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
1946 Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
1948 Edvard Benešj, President of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48) (b. 1884)
1951 Arnold Warren, cricketer (only Test for England)
1951 Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer
1954 Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey)
1954 Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1960 Joseph Lamb, composer
1961 Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 Anton Mauve, Dutch painter
1962 E(dward) E. Cummings, American poet (Tulips & Chimneys) (b. 1894)
1963 Cruys Voorbergh, actor/director (Vliegende Hollander)
1963 Frico Kafenda, composer
1963 Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
1964 Joseph Marx, Austrian composer
1964 Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1965 Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer)
1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council)
1967 Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman (b.1893)
1967 James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
1968 Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1969 Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ta't-Tanh), N Vietnamese president
1969 John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1970 Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
1970 Jochen Rindt, German race car driver
1970 Vince Lombardi, American football coach (Packers) (b. 1913)
1971 Percy Holmes, cricketer (Yorks opener, 7 Tests for Eng 1921-32)
1971 Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter)
1974 Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
1980 Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
1980 Duncan Renaldo, American actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury) (b. 1904)
1980 Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter, judge
1981 Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered
1982 Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame)
1983 Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1984 Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet)
1984 Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid)
1985 Joe Jones, drummer
1985 John Herbert McDowell, composer
1985 Johnny Marks, American singer (b. 1909)
1986 Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, aviatrix, and memoirist (b. 1902)
1987 Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
1987 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian architect, author (Soldiers)
1987 Vokopach Stalingrada-Kira Georgijevna
1990 David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 Frank Capra, American film director (It's a Wonderful Life) (b. 1897)
1991 Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist
1992 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884)
1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union)
1994 Billy Wright, English former footballer (World Champion 1950) (b. 1924)
1994 James T. Aubrey, American television executive, actor (Riders of the Storm) (b. 1918)
1994 Major Lance, American soul singer (b. 1939)
1994 Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist
1994 Nikos Ghika, artist
1994 Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife
1994 William Ambrose Right, footballer
1995 Alex Brown, snooker player
1995 Alfred Earle Birney, poet
1995 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
1995 Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
1995 Peter Michalke, journalist
1995 Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1996 Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910)
1996 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate
1996 Julian Amery, politician
1996 Robert Croften Brown, politician
2000 Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1973)
2002 W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)
2007 Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 Syd Jackson, Maori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2008 Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b. 1917)
2010 Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)
2012 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
2012 Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
2015 Adrian Cadbury, British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance
2015 Judy Carne, English Comedienne and Actress (Laugh-In)